Re: ask for the value of several variables at once

[tomas]

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On Fri, Mar 09, 2018 at 09:32:07AM +0100, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Emanuel Berg wrote:
> 
> > OK, but better (and much more difficult) to do
> > a function/macro which is used like this,
> > NB with no string or quotes to protect the
       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
       it has to be a macro then...

> > original symbols:
> >
> >     (vars-and-values var-1 ... var-n)
> >
> > which should give a list:
> >
> >     (var-1 var-1-value ... var-n var-n-value)
> >
> > or
> >
> >     ((var-1 var-1-value) ... (var-n var-n-value))
> >
> > Do it today - in a different way :)
> 
> This is how far I got - next step to make it
> work with a list of vars...
> 
>     (defmacro echo-var (var)
>       `(list ,(symbol-name var) ,var) )
>     ;; (echo-var fill-column) ; ("fill-column" 47)

That's a good first step. The question now is whether to delegate
the looping over the list to a function or not.

Whatever it is what catches the argument list has to be a macro,
due to you "no quotes" requirement...

Thanks
- -- t
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