Re: cond*

[Ihor Radchenko]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> ...
> This tries to be a real example:
>
> (defun byte-optimize-letX (form)
>   (cond*
> ...
>     ;; Decompose the form
>     ((match* `(,head ,bindings . ,body) form))
>
>     ;; Body is empty or just contains a constant.
>     ((match* (or `() `(,(macroexp-const-p const))) body)

This may be confusing. Consider

(let ((somenumber 2) (form '(10)))
(cond*
  ((match* `(,(> (+ somenumber form-car-value) 3))) form)
))

It is not clear how to mark actual variables and variables to-be-bound
inside ,(...) match* constructs.

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