Maciej Katafiasz  <mathrick@gmail.com> wrote:
+---------------
| [This goes primarly to Rob, whom I stole DBGV from, but as it's a 
| generally useful macro, I'm posting it here in case anyone cares]
| 
| Hi,
| 
| some time ago I stole your DBGV macro. It's nifty, except it doesn't 
| behave as described (ie. unlike PROGN, it eats the value of the forms 
| executed).
+---------------

Where did I ever say that my DBGV acted like PROGN?
My records show that I always said exactly the opposite!!

    Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
    Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2007 21:02:50 -0500
    Subject: Re: A "killer" macro
    From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)

    Raymond Wiker  <raw@RawMBP.local> wrote:
    +---------------
    | Emilio Lopes <eclig@gmx.net> writes:
    | > Here is my take: a simple macro called `debug', which
    | > prints a given *expression* followed by its value.
    | ...
    +---------------
    ...
    p.s. The one from my personal toolbox, in CL:
    ...
    I suppose I could make it return the last value like Emilio's does,
    but I haven't found the need for that yet.

and:

    Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
    Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:42:17 -0600
    Subject: Re: need help for a simple macro
    From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
    ...
    Kaz Kylheku  <kkylheku@gmail.com> wrote:
    +---------------
    | I'd give a different name to the macro version, like CHATTY-PROGN. The
    | macro version should handle multiple values from each form, in
    | particular the last one. I'd make it like this:
    | 
    |   (defmacro chatty-progn (&body forms)  ...[trimmed]... )
    +---------------

    Interesting that you added the multiple values support.
    I've had a version of this in my toolbox for some years
    *without* the multiple values support, and never missed it:
    ...

Were you perhaps thinking of Kaz's or Emilio's versions?


-Rob

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