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macro documentation
- To: BUG-LISPM at MIT-AI
- Subject: macro documentation
- From: Eugene C. Ciccarelli <ECC at MIT-AI>
- Date: Sun ,20 Dec 81 15:41:00 EDT
In System 78.22, ZMail 38.4, microcode 841, 60Hz, on Lisp Machine One:
Currently, (FUNCTION-DOCUMENTATION 'FOO) is generally useless if FOO is a
macro, because DEFMACRO does not check for a documentation string.
How about having:
(DEFMACRO FOO (ARG1 ARG2)
"Some documentation..."
...macro-body...)
turn into:
(COMPILER-LET ...
(MACRO FOO (SI:*MACROARG*)
"Some documentation..." ; Put here and FUNCTION-DOCUMENTATION will find it.
(AND (OR (< (LENGTH SI:*MACROARG*) 3.)...) ...)
((LAMBDA (ARG1)
((LAMBDA (ARG2)
(PROGN
;; This is where "Some documentation..." is now.
...macro-body...))
...)) ...)))