Author: Alan MackenzieAlan Mackenzie Date: Sep 12, 2008 16:10
'Morning, Lennart!
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:13:10PM +0200, Lennart Borgman (gmail) wrote:
> defmacro is worse than my neighbour's cat.
Miaow!!!
> When I think I everything is fine and I calm down they bite.
> I have a defmacro where I define a function and I want to build the doc
> string for this function in a certain way. This works fine - until I
> byte compile it. Can someone please try to explain to me how I can do
> what I want?
> Below is the defmacro. Look for "fix-me".
> (defmacro define-mumamo-multi-major-mode (fun-sym spec-doc chunks)
> "Define a function that turn on support for multiple major modes."
> (let* ((mumamo-describe-chunks (make-symbol "mumamo-describe-chunks"))
OK, here's a problem. You have _two_ symbols called
"mumamo-describe-chunks" here. One (uninterned) is the value of the
other. Why do this? Why not just declare the symbol directly inside the
let* form and use it?
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