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From: moore%cdr.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Tim Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: macroexpanding macrolets
Message-ID: <1990Nov14.135322.7677@hellgate.utah.edu>
Date: 14 Nov 90 20:53:22 GMT
References: <4049@idunno.Princeton.EDU> <8880@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
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In article <8880@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> maverick@fir.Berkeley.EDU (Vance Maverick) writes:
>In article <4049@idunno.Princeton.EDU>, eliot@phoenix.Princeton.EDU
>(Eliot Handelman) writes:
>> I need a function that macroexpands locally-defined macros (via MACROLET)
>> -- is there some way to do this in plain CL? If not, has anyone hacked
>such a 
>> tool in KCL? Am I right in thinking that the optional environment to
>> MACROEXPAND is the way to go?
>
>Yes, according to CLtL.  But how do you get the Lisp object representing
>an environment?

By using the &environment argument to macros.
Tim Moore                    moore@cs.utah.edu {bellcore,hplabs}!utah-cs!moore
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