[slime-devel] Re: [patch] a way to specify custom Emacs indentation right in the Lisp source

Harald Hanche-Olsen hanche@math.ntnu.no writes:

• Michael Livshin gmane@cmm.kakpryg.net:

| <example> | (defmacro my-macro (name (&rest args) &body function-bindings) | ...)

Uh, am I missing something here, or is that an inappropriate use of &body? I would use &rest in this situation. Why don't you?

because with &REST Emacs would indent the bindings waaaay to the right (unless I put the name and args on a separate line, which is also not really plesant), so I've sort of grown used to use &BODY in such cases.

It's just that my gut reaction says that a list of function bindings is not a body, and so saying it is one seems disingenuous.

I think your gut reaction is right, if one is willing to discount the present realities of using Emacs and Slime.

thanks, --m