Subject: Re: Macros still needed with shorter LAMBDA?
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 06:32:03 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3cednZl8ZueuCO_dRVn-gg@speakeasy.net>
Russell Wallace <wallacethinmintr@eircom.net> wrote:
+---------------
| Given that macros are needed, should they be in the same namespace
| as functions, or a different namespace?
+---------------

Same, because they go in the same position (first) in a compound form.

+---------------
| ...are there, for example, any situations where you'd want a function
| and macro with the same name?
+---------------

Well, compiler macros. But CL already does "the right thing" in that case.


-Rob

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