&body

[Robert W. Kerns <RWK at MIT-MC>]

    Date: 30 December 1980 21:51-EST
    From: Alan Bawden <ALAN at MIT-MC>
    Subject: &body
    To: BUG-LISP at MIT-MC
    cc: ALAN at MIT-MC

    The LispMachine version of defmacro now supports an additional &
    keyword: &body.  It has exactly the same effect as &rest as far as the
    defined macro is concerned.  The difference is that in addition to
    defining the macro it outputs a form to tell Zwei how to indent
    instances of the macro.  So that


    (defmacro frobify (var form frob &body body)
      ...)

    Tells Zwei to indent like:

    (frobify x (+ 3 z)
    	 *frob*
      (print x)
      (print y))

    The idea is that body is declared to be a body (list of forms) and not
    just any old random list structure.

    Now it would be a little hard to have this work on ITS, but it would
    be nice if the ITS defmacro would at least accept the keyword &body in
    place of &rest.  Can this be done please?  Thank you.
Done.