Re: elisp macros problem

[David Kastrup]

Lowell Kirsh <lkirsh@cs.ubc.ca> writes:

> Why does this not work:
> 
> (defmacro my-add-hooks (hooks &rest body)
>    `(dolist (hook ,hooks)
>        (my-add-hook hook ,@body)))
> 
> ??

Because you need to write
`(dolist (hook ',hooks)

and then call this with an _unquoted_ list, like
(my-add-hooks (lisp emacs-lisp)
  body)

Apart from that, I consider this sort of thing a crock.  What are you
hoping to achieve that you would not be better off doing by a proper
function instead of a macro?

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum