Thomas F. Burdick <tfb@conquest.OCF.Berkeley.EDU> wrote:
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| Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com> writes:
| 
| > tfb@conquest.OCF.Berkeley.EDU (Thomas F. Burdick) writes:
| > >   (defvar *some-var* 2)
| > >   (define-symbol-macro some-var (symbol-value '*some-var*))
| > >
| > > And now you have some-var, which behaves like a global lexical.
| > 
| > If it'sa global lexical, non dynamic (special), why do you name it with stars?
| 
| Read, Pascal!  There are two things there, one global special named
| *some-var*, and one symbol macro named some-var.  It's the latter that
| behaves like a global lexical.
| 
| I could have posted a deflexical macro, but I didn't want to obscure
| the simple mechanics of how it would work with the machinery of the
| macro.  When experienced lispers who ought to be able to read two
| lines of simple code come and post misleading responses, that undoes
| all the intended newbie-friendliness.
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Oops. Sorry. I too posted before reading closely enough. (*blush*)


-Rob

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