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Coby Beck  
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 More options Aug 31 2002, 10:02 pm
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: "Coby Beck" <cb...@mercury.bc.ca>
Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 12:03:52 +1000
Local: Sat, Aug 31 2002 10:03 pm
Subject: Re: symbol in macro
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"Kaz Kylheku" <k...@ashi.footprints.net> wrote in message

news:akr3uo$cc1$2@luna.vcn.bc.ca...
> In article <a6789134.0208310214.7573b...@posting.google.com>, Software
> Scavenger wrote:
> > Erik Naggum <e...@naggum.no> wrote in message

<news:3239763128549848@naggum.no>...

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

> > Whatever package the macro is expanded in, it expects to find a
> > specific symbol in that package.  It can't simply refer to it
> > directly, because it doesn't know what package it's in until it's
> > expanded.

> In that case, the symbol should probably appear as a parameter to the
macro.

That was my first thought as well.

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Coby Beck
(remove #\Space "coby 101 @ bigpond . com")


 
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