Re: Mapping (profile:report-time) over a list of profiled functions?

> [Pascal Bourguignon]
> We could add that we can of course attain the desired effects by using
> the macro expansion, which in this case is simple:
> 
> (mapcar (lambda (fn-name) (profile::%report-times fn-name))
> 
> But of course we cannot expect it to continue to work with a different
> release of the profiler, since we have the *double* *hint*  "::%" ;-)
> But if there is no report-times* function doing the equivalent of the
> macro, then it's all we can do.

Not quite all, as I'm sure you're aware.  We could also do 

(mapcar (lambda (fn-name) (eval `(profile:report-time ,fn-name)))
        ...)

Using 'eval' is frowned on, but for such ad hoc applications it seems
a harmless way to get around having to know what 'profile:report-time'
expands into.

                                             -- Drew McDermott