'Hope it won't bother my using defmacros named in the style of keywords (colon-prefixed, e.g., :set-this or :get-that): it apparently tricks ELisp from otherwise requiring quoted symbols (') or function symbols (#').
For example:
(foo :set-this value-that) ; line 0 Nevermind that: the problem goes as follows.
Say there are two "keywordp"-like defmacros with one parameter, and given a cl-flet* context, there should be two similar forms (as in line #0), but with two different macros and arguments.
An MWE is the following.
(defmacro :m (x) `(length ,x)) ; line 1 ⇒ :m (and (keywordp :m) (macrop :m)) ; line 2 ⇒ t (:m `(3)) ; line 3 ⇒ 1 (defmacro :w (x) `(length (nreverse ,x))) ; line 4 ⇒ :w (and (keywordp :w) (macrop :w)) ; line 5 ⇒ t (:w `(6)) ; line 6 ⇒ 1 (defun x (y z) (eval `(,y ,z))) ; line 7 ⇒ x (x :m `(8)) ; line 8 ⇒ Invalid function: 8 (x :w '(9)) ; line 9 ⇒ Invalid function: 8 (- (eval `(:m '(8)) (eval `(:w `(9))) ; line 10 ⇒ 0 The faulty code is in line #7.
In these simple cases, it don't matter if the argument-list is backquoted `(8), quoted '(9), or returned as (list 8).
Lines #8 and #9 show what is wrong.
Yet, line #10 shows that evaluating as it "should be" is possible.
Now, if instead of defun there were a defmacro:
(defmacro x (y z) `(eval (,y ,z))) ; line 11 ⇒ x then lines #8 or #9 would be equivalent to line 10, but this is impossible within a cl-flet*.
Any hints? Thank s.
