[pro] substitution macro lisp extension?

[David McClain]

On Sep 21, 2010, at 10:48, Mark H. David wrote:

>   Is there any well-known implementation of a macro similar to old  
> Lisp Machine's defsubst,
> but not as fancy, one that simply emits a macro after doing a  
> reasonable, if less than
> perfect, attempt to do substitutions and guarantee first-to-last  
> arg once-and-once-only evaluation?
>
> I realize that most people just use declare inline for this kind of  
> thing.  Or define a macro like
> defsubst just to emit a defun with a declare-inline declaration.  I  
> would like something that's
> different: something that always emits a macro def given a function- 
> like semantics for
> args and body.
>
> It's a pretty simple thing, but I was wondering if it's sitting  
> around in a library somewhere.
> What's out there?
>

Isn't this what symbol-macrolet, macrolet, and define-compiler-macro  
are for?

Dr. David McClain
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