CuppoJava,

Could you give us a little more information what you're trying to do?
What type of macro-macros are you writing?

On May 28, 4:58 am, Konrad Hinsen <konrad.hin...@laposte.net> wrote:
> On 28.05.2009, at 03:11, CuppoJava wrote:
>
> > I'm using macroexpand-1 right now, but it's not terribly useful as
> > backquotes expand to something nasty.
>
> > Given:
> > (defmacro mymacro []
> >   `(level1 `(level2)))
>
> > I would like to see it expanded to:
> > (user/level1 `(level2))
>
> That's not possible, because the replacement happens *before* macro  
> expansion. The backquote is expanded by the reader.
>
> To see what happens, just type
>
>         `(level1 `(level2))
>
> into the REPL. The result is
>
>         (user/level1 (clojure.core/seq (clojure.core/concat (clojure.core/
> list (quote user/level2)))))
>
> Konrad.
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