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From: Prof Ric Crabbe <cra...@crab.cs.usna.edu>
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Subject: Re: macro help?
Date: 17 Nov 2003 19:15:21 -0500
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Kent M Pitman <pit...@nhplace.com> writes:

> Prof Ric Crabbe <cra...@crab.cs.usna.edu> writes:
> 
> > Kent M Pitman <pit...@world.std.com> writes:
> > > 
> > > DEFVAR is a declarative form.  It doesn't make sense to do in a loop.
> > 
> > then what I was trying to do wasn't clear.  The point is that each
> > pass through, the variable being defined would have a different name.
> [...]
> > Can this be done without a loop?
> 
> Not the right question.  The loop needs to be there BUT at compile time
> not at runtime.  Consider:
> 

Ah.  Now I am enlightened, and I now understand that you tried to tell
me this before, but I didn't get it.  Thank you for your patience;
I've learned more about macros this week than in all my other years of
lisp programming.

cheers,
ric