Re: Stumped: unable to resolve symbol in macro expansion

2014-07-22 Thread Dave Tenny
Doh! Major face palm. I had such a bad case of tunnel vision on the macro definition I forgot to look up the stack once I'd fixed the macro. Thanks. Good to have extra eyes. On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Matthew DeVore matv...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't taken the time to fully grok your

Re: Stumped: unable to resolve symbol in macro expansion

2014-07-21 Thread Dave Tenny
In my case, I'm trying to use a the expression '[x] that is available to the macro in the resulting product. So I don't want the value of x at all, just a vector with the symbol x. That vector is in a variable I have in the macro named 'positional-parameters', so I substitute

Re: Stumped: unable to resolve symbol in macro expansion

2014-07-21 Thread Matthew DeVore
I haven't taken the time to fully grok your macro, but the error is not the fault of your macro, but of the function invocation. (foo x) is causing the error because x is undefined. foo is a plain function, not a macro, so it tries to evaluate each argument. (foo 'x) works fine for me, as does

Stumped: unable to resolve symbol in macro expansion

2014-07-20 Thread Matthew DeVore
I don't have a Clojure REPL handy at the moment but it looks like the x symbol is being resolved in the macro context rather than the expansion context. In the macro source, where you have a plain x, try to replace it with ~'x ... This blog post may be relevant: