another simple defmacro question

From: bufie (bufie_at_spamneggs.com)
Date: 08/28/04 

Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 02:54:10 GMT

Hi again,

I know I'm missing something simple here, but I've tried a bunch of stuff
and it just doesn't work...

My application needs to read a list of constants at compile time from a
file. I came up with this macro:

(defmacro my-file-to-string-list (fname)
  (let ((stringlist)
           (tmpstr))
    (with-open-file (infile fname :direction :input)
      (loop
        (setq tmpstr (read-line infile nil nil))
        (unless tmpstr
          (return))
        (push tmpstr stringlist)
         ))
    (setq stringlist (nreverse stringlist))
    stringlist
    ))

When I call this using
(setq mystrings (my-file-to-string-list myfilename))

I get an error that the first line of the file is invalid as a function
(it's apparently considering the opening paren of the list as a function
call). I know there must be something simple here (if I change the defmacro
to defun it will work, but doesn't get evaluated at load time or compile
time), and I think I've solved this (or seen it solved) before, but I'm just
not seeing it this time...

help, please!

thanks!

bufie

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