> Yes, I know. It disproved the suggestion that it was expanding macros
> there *before* checking for special symbols. That was precisely my
> point with that demonstration.

I must have misread your comments.

> When the macro expands into a special form, or a form involving a
> special subform, this seems to be true. On the other hand it cannot
> convert an s-expression *into* a special form unless s-expression was
> the macro invocation itself. (qqq something) can expand to (if
> something), but ((qqq) something) cannot expand to (if something) and
> have this still be treated as the if special form, for the reasons
> already noted.

Agreed.

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