Subject: Re: SETF : Ambiguous?
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2001 18:41:51 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3215443310284855@naggum.net>

* Rene de Visser
| Is it then the case then that all the standard macros in common lisp that
| end up evaluating their arguements make sure that these evaluations occur
| in a left to right direction w.r.t to the original macro parameters?

  Yes.

| Do people pay much attention to this when writing their own macros?

  If they are smart and know the language, they do.

| (I certainly haven't given any thought to this in the past when writing
| my own macros.)

  Well, then you have written _really_ bad macros.

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