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From: carroll@cs.uiuc.edu (Alan M. Carroll)
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Date: 30 Oct 90 22:50:47 GMT
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A very basic question from a non-expert Lisper:

What is the best way to have a macro expand to more than 1 top-level form in
CommonLisp? Right now I use something like `(progn form1 form2 ...), but I
worry that since the forms aren't actually at the top level in the file,
they might not be processed/compiled/etc. correctly. What I want to accomplish
is to have macros that set up read/writers in CLOS automatically (I have large
numbers of almost identical ones, only the class name / slot names change).
Thanks!