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bug#15296: 24.3.50; A macro object does not necessarily have `lambda' as
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Michael Heerdegen |
Subject: |
bug#15296: 24.3.50; A macro object does not necessarily have `lambda' as its cadr |
Date: |
Sat, 07 Sep 2013 13:34:27 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> AFAICT, (elisp) `Defining Macros' is the closest thing we have to doc
> telling you how to test whether a Lisp object is a macro. There is no
> `macro-p' predicate or similar in Emacs Lisp, unless I'm missing
> something. (Shouldn't there be?)
There is `macrop' in subr.el (since some months ago, I think).
> Anyway, this Elisp manual node says that a macro is a list whose car
> is `macro' and whose `cdr' is a lambda expression. That's not true if
> the `defmacro' was byte-compiled.
Confusing, indeed.
Michael.