On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:09:35 -0400, "Andrei Stebakov" lispercat@gmail.com wrote:
I am trying to incorporate parenscript into cl-who tree. I tried to insert a small macro but for some reasons I get various errors linke "cl-who:fmt not defined" or ":script not defined". I guess I need help to figure out the way macros work with cl-who...
(defmacro js-body (&rest body) `(:script :type "text/javascript" (fmt (ps ,@body))))
This won't work and has been discussed before. Search the CL-WHO mailing list for previous discussion of the same topic. Basically, CL-WHO (like all the other HTML generators I'm aware of) transforms its body, but it doesn't expand all macros in the body first. You'd need a full code walker for that. (Google for "Lisp Code Walker".)
(LET ((*STANDARD-OUTPUT* (MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM :ELEMENT-TYPE 'CHARACTER))) (UNWIND-PROTECT (PROGN (WITH-HTML-OUTPUT (*STANDARD-OUTPUT* NIL :PROLOGUE NIL :INDENT NIL) (:HTML (:HEAD (:TITLE "Some title")) (JS-BODY (DEFUN SOME-FUNC () (ALERT "Hello!")))))) (CLOSE *STANDARD-OUTPUT*)) (GET-OUTPUT-STREAM-STRING *STANDARD-OUTPUT*))
The HyperSpec says: "*macroexpand* <#macroexpand> repeatedly expands *form*until it is no longer a *macro form"* <26_glo_m.htm#macro_form>
Right. (LET ...) is not a macro form.
Why js-body or with-html-output doesn't get expanded in this case?
Again, for what you want, you will need a full code walker. Try something like "Walk Form" in LispWorks or slime-macroexpand-all (I think that's how it's called) in SLIME.
Edi.