Quoth l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès): > Sebastian Tennant <seb...@smolny.plus.com> writes: > >> Incidentally, perhaps you can tell me why the first argument to this >> compile-friendly macro has to be a string for it to work. >> >> guile> (define-macro (definer var val) >> `(define ,var ,val)) >> guile> (definer 'foo "bar") >> >> appears to have worked, but... >> >> guile> foo >> ERROR: Unbound variable: foo >> ABORT: (unbound-variable) > > Try this: > > (definer foo "bar")
Yes it works. Damn. After much experimenting and head scratching... Question: When is a variable not a variable? Answer: When it's about to become the name of a variable. :) Seb
