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[Now Macros, but formerly] Issue: LET-TOP-LEVEL (version 1)
- To: KMP@stony-brook.scrc.symbolics.com
- Subject: [Now Macros, but formerly] Issue: LET-TOP-LEVEL (version 1)
- From: Jon L White <edsel!jonl@labrea.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 88 16:35:29 PST
- Cc: masinter.PA@xerox.com, cl-cleanup@sail.Stanford.EDU
- In-reply-to: Kent M Pitman's message of Tue, 8 Mar 88 10:17 EST <880308101753.2.KMP@RIO-DE-JANEIRO.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
I generally agree with your comments (macros problems). It's conceivable
to me that the best we can hope to do -- while still retaining Lisp's
characteristic dynamic flexibility -- is to offer a coherent explanation
of the "meaning" of macroexpansion times, with liberal use of "it is an
error ..."
-- JonL --