Re: How does a quoted symbol become a CONS?

On Jan 15, 5:27 pm, "Leslie P. Polzer" <leslie.pol...@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Sorry if it seems tremendously stupid, but what happens here:

[41]> (defmacro foo (bar) (format t "~A" (type-of bar)))
FOO
[42]> (foo 'quux)
CONS
NIL

so that the symbol becomes a cons?

Others have answered the superficial question.

The real question is why you want this to be a macro? FORMAT and TYPE-
OF are both functions.
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