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Subject: Re: macro help?
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 17:57:02 GMT

jtd...@eos.ncsu.edu (Justin Dubs) writes:

> Peter Seibel <pe...@javamonkey.com> wrote in message news:<m34qx7ohna.fsf@javamonkey.com>...
> > Prof Ric Crabbe <cra...@crab.cs.usna.edu> writes:
> > 
> > > I'm afraid I'm not very good with macros and I've been banging my
> > > head against this problem all day.
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > > now the setf is assigning to the gensym... *sigh* Clearly, i have no
> > > idea what I'm doing. Can anyone enlighten me on the proper way to do
> > > this? (Also, I suspect the interning of the string might be
> > > considered bad style. What should that be?)
> > 
> > This might be a good time for me to point out that I've put some more
> > chapters of my upcoming Common Lisp book up on the web at 
> > 
> >   <http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/>
> > 
> > In particular you might want to check out the chapter on writing
> > macros at:
> > 
> >   <http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/macros-defining-our-own.html>
> > 
> > Since you're right in the thick of trying to understand macros, I'd
> > love to hear your feedback on whether this chapter helps at all or
> > just adds to your confusion.
> 
> Nice work on the new chapters.  I found a few typos I thought I should point out:

Thanks.

-Peter

-- 
Peter Seibel                                      pe...@javamonkey.com

         Lisp is the red pill. -- John Fraser, comp.lang.lisp