[Ecls-list] SI:QUASIQUOTE meets CASE during COMPILE-FILE

[Samium Gromoff]

At Thu, 10 Apr 2008 13:10:14 +0200,
Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 8:09 PM, Samium Gromoff
> <_deepfire at feelingofgreen.ru> wrote:

> >  foo.lisp: --- 8< ---
> >  (defun foo (param)
> >   (case param
> >     `',@(list)
> >     (t nil)))
> 
> I am positively sure you are not allowed to do this. It may be that,
> due to the macro expansion they use, SBCL and CLISP makes this work,
> but it is not legal. The arguments to CASE must be static forms.  The
> quasiquote form is creating a lisp form that creates a list which is
> equivalent to the one you are trying to build, but this is any form
> and it has to be evaluated
> 
> This is clear about that:
> http://www.lisp.org/HyperSpec/Body/sec_2-4-6.html
> 
> "An implementation is free to interpret a backquoted form F1 as any
> form F2 that, when evaluated, will produce a result that is the same
> under equal as the result implied by the above definition,"

After some meditation, I recognized that you are right.

I didn't correctly parse the "interpret" part of that sentence,
specifically, I missed that it implies "produce F2 as the final result
of the READ pass."

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

regards, Samium Gromoff