On 26.9.2010 2:09, Pascal Costanza wrote:
untestable and vague idea at best. The fact is that the problems with eval are well known and well described, both in literature and in practice. It's not necessary to discuss them in this forum, which is about professional uses of Common Lisp. I don't consider this a professional topic, because aside from toy examples, using eval most certainly doesn't simplify things, but makes things more complicated in the long run.
Pascal and others,
Moderator politely proposed that I do not continue sub-discussion on eval in this thread. If you have some references of the literature you mentioned here, please post me privately, off this list.
As main discussion - on best macros - ended, I'll use this opportunity to thank to all who contributed to this thread. I got a number of valuable answers.
Kazimir