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From: patcl@hammer.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: question for a Common Lisp guru
Message-ID: <1840@hammer.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Mar-86 12:28:04 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar  4 12:28:04 1986
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Reply-To: patcl@hammer.UUCP (Pat Clancy)
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In article <1142@mit-eddie.UUCP> barmar@eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin) writes:
>>There does not seem to be any special form which could be
>>used to implement such a macro [defun].
>
>It can expand into
>	(setf (symbol-value ...
>See the last paragraph of the symbol-function description on page 90 of
>the Common Lisp book.
>

Unfortunately, setf is itself a macro. So what is the final real
form that that defun expands to? I've gotten several mail responses
but none that appear to be correct, and I do not have access to a
CL implementation.

Pat Clancy
"this is not a signature line"