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Re: defmacro with built-in gensym declaration and initialization
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Robin Tarsiger |
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Re: defmacro with built-in gensym declaration and initialization |
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Wed, 20 Jan 2021 10:47:01 -0600 |
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Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Indeed, `macroexp-let2` was designed for similar situations.
> I'm not completely happy with it either, so if someone can design
> something better, that'd be welcome,
FWIW, I'm generally happy with the conveniences the Alexandria library
provides for in CL:
https://common-lisp.net/project/alexandria/draft/alexandria.html#Macro-Writing
once-only is similar to macroexp-let2* but cleaner and more convenient
(though it also acts like let rather than let*). Ad-hoc example:
(defmacro strange-hypot (x y)
(once-only (x y (z '(current-z-difference)))
`(+ (* ,x ,x) (* ,y ,y) (* ,z ,z)))
(macroexpand '(strange-hypot (+ x dx) 42))
==>
(LET ((#:X634 (+ X DX)) (#:Y635 42) (#:Z636 (CURRENT-Z-DIFFERENCE)))
(+ (* #:X634 #:X634) (* #:Y635 #:Y635) (* #:Z636 #:Z636)))
Note that the "single evaluation as expanded of one macro argument"
case is very convenient, which is a big step up from Emacs's macroexp-
forms.
with-gensyms is closer to what akater was describing earlier, and is
a "lower-level" helper around let and gensym. Ad-hoc example:
(defmacro vec3+nums-macro (v1 x2 y2 z2)
(with-gensyms (v1-var x-var y-var z-var)
`(let* ((,v1-var ,v1)
(,x-var (+ ,x2 (elt ,v1-var 0)))
(,y-var (+ ,y2 (elt ,v1-var 1)))
(,z-var (+ ,z2 (elt ,v1-var 2))))
(vec3 ,x-var ,y-var ,z-var))))
(macroexpand '(vec3+nums-macro (acquire-vector (somehow))
(+ previous-x dx) y -1.0))
==>
(LET* ((#:V1-VAR637 (ACQUIRE-VECTOR (SOMEHOW)))
(#:X-VAR638 (+ (+ PREVIOUS-X DX) (ELT #:V1-VAR637 0)))
(#:Y-VAR639 (+ Y (ELT #:V1-VAR637 1)))
(#:Z-VAR640 (+ -1.0 (ELT #:V1-VAR637 2))))
(VEC3 #:X-VAR638 #:Y-VAR639 #:Z-VAR640))
Note that the let* form is not convenient in once-only, and
the Alexandria helpers don't do any of the constant-related
optimization that Emacs's do AFAIK, but the possible slight
adjustments there are fairly obvious.
-RTT
- defmacro with built-in gensym declaration and initialization, akater, 2021/01/20
- Re: defmacro with built-in gensym declaration and initialization, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2021/01/20
- Re: defmacro with built-in gensym declaration and initialization, Stefan Monnier, 2021/01/20
- Re: defmacro with built-in gensym declaration and initialization,
Robin Tarsiger <=
- Re: defmacro with built-in gensym declaration and initialization, akater, 2021/01/20
- Re: defmacro with built-in gensym declaration and initialization, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2021/01/20
- Re: defmacro with built-in gensym declaration and initialization, akater, 2021/01/21
- Re: defmacro with built-in gensym declaration and initialization, Stefan Monnier, 2021/01/21
- Re: defmacro with built-in gensym declaration and initialization, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2021/01/21
- Re: defmacro with built-in gensym declaration and initialization, Stefan Monnier, 2021/01/21
- Re: defmacro with built-in gensym declaration and initialization, Basil L. Contovounesios, 2021/01/21