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Macro-writing challenge

Name: Anonymous 2016-01-16 13:19

Write a macro check-arguments-non-nil to be used in function definitions, that would expand to assertion about every argument being non-nil.
The intended usage of this macro:

(defun foo (a b c d)
(check-arguments-non-nil)
foo-body)


This should expand to:

(defun foo (a b c d)
(assert (and (not (null a)) (not (null b)) (not (null c)) (not (null d)))
(a b c d)
"Null argument in FOO")
foo-body)


The macro must work whatever the number and names of the function parameters.

Name: Anonymous 2016-01-20 18:49

>>42
Yes you can. >>41's "often" means shit Lispers who just took a course in Scheme in school and don't know what they're doing.

(defmacro runmacro (macro &rest args)
`(,macro ,@args))


Of course, this is an exploded form to be more descriptive. It is effectively a no-op that degenerates to (defmacro runmacro (&rest form) form).

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