Re: macro that writes macros

jordi.burguet.castell@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
(defmacro new-tag (name)
(let ((sname (string-downcase (symbol-name name))))
`(defmacro ,name (&rest content)
`(progn
(format t "<~a>~%" ,',sname)
,@content
(format t "</~a>~%" ,',sname)))))


This is the occasion for me to ask how to get rid of these ','symbol things. While in this case it's pretty obvious how they work, it sometimes make the code pretty hard to read and understand. I recently came up with a very subtle bug (for me anyways) using such syntax.

So what are you guys usually doing to avoid these ? Do you avoid these at all ?

Thanks in advance,
Sacha
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