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Issue: LOAD-TIME-EVAL, Sub-Issue: Displacing macros

To: Kent M Pitman <KMP@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
Subject: Issue: LOAD-TIME-EVAL, Sub-Issue: Displacing macros
From: David A. Moon <Moon@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 13:36 EST
Cc: Gray@DSG.CSC.TI.COM, CL-Compiler@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU
In-reply-to: <890126085447.4.KMP@BOBOLINK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>

    Date: Thu, 26 Jan 89 08:54 EST
    From: Kent M Pitman <KMP@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>

    Personally, I can't imagine how displacing macros can work at all.

Displacing macros do not work in Common Lisp, period.  Not only for
the reasons you cited, but also because of lexical scoping (mentioned
in a recent message from me, I won't bore you by repeating it).

References:
- Issue: LOAD-TIME-EVAL, Sub-Issue: Displacing macros
  - From: Kent M Pitman <KMP@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>

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