GNU bug report logs - #8712
24.0.50; getting the "Forgot to expand macro XXXX" error - problem? solution?

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Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Sat, 21 May 2011 21:02:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.0.50

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #20 received at 8712 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 8712 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: RE: bug#8712: 24.0.50;
	getting the "Forgot to expand macro XXXX" error - problem? solution?
Date: Sun, 22 May 2011 20:55:17 -0700

> > That presumably comes from a defmacro that has, in effect, this:
> >  ` ... (let* (... (something (lambda (opt)...))))
> 
> This is because you pass (lambda (opt) ...) as `function' argument
> to a macro that then splices it with `(.... ',function ....)
> so the expanded code contains '(lambda (opt) ...).

Oh, right; I was looking in the wrong place.  Thx.
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