define(macro)

 

 

Overview

The define macro: special form allows the user to declare a new variable and initialize it to a macro. The macro must receive zero or more arguments, and its body may have zero or more expressions. In this form, define always returns the value to which name is initialized (Note: this value will always be a macro object).

A Lisp macro is an Lambda object which is used exclusively by the compiler in the macro substitution phase (see the morph Function). A macro Lambda is normally unavailable outside of the compilation process. During the compiler's substitution phase, each macro is invoked with its unevaluated arguments. The value returned by the Macro is substituted for the original macro reference in the source.

Usage

Use the define macro: function when you wish to create an in-line macro, which expands its arguments, rather than invoking a function call.

 

Syntax

Expression:

(define macro:(name arg...) faces:(var...) vars:(var...) pvars:(var...) cvars:(var...) regs:(var...) exp...)

Arguments Name Type Description
Argument:nameSymbol The name that the Lambda will be associated with.
Argument:(arg...)--- Optional Argument. Argument list for the Lambda.
Argument:faces:(var...)Symbol Optional Argument. If present, must be followed by a interfaces feature list.
Argument:vars:(var...)Symbol Optional Argument. If present, must be followed by a local variable list.
Argument:pvars:(var...)Symbol Optional Argument. If present, must be followed by a persistent variable list.
Argument:cvars:(var...)Symbol Optional Argument. If present, must be followed by a persistent class variable list.
Argument:regs:(var...)Symbol Optional Argument. If present, must be followed by a register variable list (up to fifty register variables are allowed).
Argument:exp...--- The Lisp statements that forms the Lambdas

Returns:

An Lambda that will be assigned the name {name}.

 

Examples

Here are a number of links to Lambda coding examples which contain this instruction in various use cases.

 

Argument Types

Here are the links to the data types of the function arguments.

Lambda Symbol

Here are also a number of links to functions having arguments with any of these data types.

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