On Dec 16, 3:52 pm, Randall R Schulz <rsch...@sonic.net> wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 December 2008 12:37, Rich Hickey wrote:
>
> > On Dec 16, 2:32 pm, Stuart Halloway <stuart.hallo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Randall,
>
> > > The syntactic sugar forms are reader behavior, and occur too soon:
> > > at read time, not macro expansion time.
>
> > ...
>
> > > Macros need to expand to real forms, not reader shortcuts.
>
> > That's generally true, but does not apply here, because Classname. is
> > a regular symbol reader-wise.
>
> Which takes us back to why the dot-suffix notation was not working in a
> macro but (new ...) was. Can you explain that in terms of intended
> behaviors (the operation of nested macro expansion, perhaps?), or might
> it be a bug? If it matters, my macro was expanding to a (cond ...)
> which contained dot-suffixed-classname constructor notation and my
> constructors consistently got errors such as this one:
>
Could you please post a short code example (reducing the problem as
far as possible), what it produces, and what you expected?
Thanks,
Rich
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