Re: GSOC | Extending Common Lisp support

[Per Bothner <per at bothner dot com>]

On 05/27/2012 09:48 PM, Jamison Hope wrote:
> On May 26, 2012, at 3:00 PM, Charles Turner wrote:
>
> > By the way, is DEFMACRO "safe" to use in CL? I remember
> > Per asking users to stop using it in Scheme (which makes sense given
> > the generative facilities there). DEFMACRO appears to work OK for some
> > simple macros, but is it known that DEFMACRO contains some dragons in
> > Kawa?
>
>
> I really don't know. Per?

Possobly, but I haven't thought about it in a while.  Regardless, defmacro
is the standard Common Lisp macro definition form, so we need to support it,
in some form or other.

> A related question: How well does Kawa's current implementation of defmacro
> conform to the CLHS spec?

I'm fairly sure the Kawa implementation of defmacro is incomplete,
missing some of the needed functionality.
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