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From: Erik Naggum <e...@naggum.no>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: symbol in macro
Date: 31 Aug 2002 06:12:08 +0000
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* cubicle...@mailandnews.com (Software Scavenger)
| How should a macro refer to a symbol which is expected to exist when the
| macro is expanded?

  In what way does it not exist when the macro is defined?

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Erik Naggum, Oslo, Norway

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