Re: Macros: returning multiple lists

From: Thomas A. Russ (tar_at_sevak.isi.edu)
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: 01 Mar 2005 09:47:59 -0800

The standard mechanism to have multiple forms returned from macros is to
enclose them in a PROGN. That assumes, of course, that you want the
forms to execute for side effects rather than value. If you want value,
then you pretty much have to make a list of them and apply any other
external-to-the-macro operations to that list. 

-- 
Thomas A. Russ,  USC/Information Sciences Institute

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