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It was an exercise, true, but I actually have a use for it in mind. As a learning exercise, this was good. As a path to making a portion of my program easier to read, not so much! Thanks to all who provided guidance. I appreciate your taking the time.

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks much.

Here's what I have so far: (defmacro qw (&rest r) "Mimic perl's qw function" (cons 'list (iter (for s in r) (collect (string s))))) The only problem with that is it upcases the string, and I don't want that. Symbols are always uppercase, so maybe this is unavoidable, but I keep thinkin...

I am trying (again) to wrap my head around macros. As an exercise, I am trying to write Perl's qw function as a macro. (qw this is a test) should expand to '("this" "is" "a" "test") Unfortunately, I'm having difficulty getting at the words in the form. Lisp ke...