Self-referential functions

"Chris Capel" <[email protected]> Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:33:03 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.lisp.movitz.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Slightly OT, perhaps.  Reading the sources, I noticed a *lot* of things like

(defmacro defmacro

and

(defun eq (a b)
   (eq a b))

.  How exactly does that work?  It sort of boggles my mind, really.  Is there a general explanation on the web somewhere for this technique, or could someone explain how it works in Muerte?

Chris Capel

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