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From: moore%cdr.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Tim Moore)
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Date: 30 Oct 90 16:26:08 MST
Message-ID: <1990Oct30.162608.20530@hellgate.utah.edu>
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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In article <1990Oct30.225047.17818@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> carroll@cs.uiuc.edu (Alan M. Carroll) writes:
>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).

PROGN will work fine for what you want. If a progn is seen at
top level, the forms of the progn are processed as if they are at top
level too.

Tim Moore                    moore@cs.utah.edu {bellcore,hplabs}!utah-cs!moore
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