Subject: Re: cl-letf blindly macroexpands places

From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2022 03:43:15 +0200

Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]> writes:

> > Maybe it's enough to expand only symbol macros?
>
> Yes, that should still cover the original need in bug#26073 without
> breaking your use case.

Was it necessary to really expand symbol macros to fix that bug, or is
the purpose only to handle the following `symbolp' test correctly?

> But regardless of this, we should probably turn `gv-synthetic-place`
> into a function so it's more robust.

Why is it a macro?  Seems to work quite as well (using the same body and
gv-spec) when defined as a function.

Michael.