Re: macro expansion

[Alan Bawden <ALAN at MIT-MC>]

    Date: 24 Nov 1980 15:33:26-PST
    From: CSVAX.fateman at Berkeley

    Dan Friedman at Indiana (off arpa net) called me to find out if Franz
    could be made to do the following:
    (dm a (l) l)   ;; dm defines a macro..
    (a 1)  ==> infinite loop.
           right now it produces a stack overflow.  Clearly it could
    be done by a "goto" in the evaluator.  Comments?
    Would such a feature be useful in various other lisp incarnations?
    Would such a feature hurt?

???  What exactly is the "feature" you are talking about?  You prefer
an infinite loop to a stack overflow?  How is that a feature?  Can you
give us a better example perhaps?