Yes, it's expected, and if you need unqualified names you need to carefully
unquote and requote, e.g.
(defmacro def-a-fn [body]
`(defn ~'a-fn ;; you can only define unqualified names, I think
[] ~@body))
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 3:32 AM, Jim <jimpil1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19/06/13 09:46, Phillip Lord wrote:
>
>> With the ' paul is not namespace qualified, while with the ` paul is.
>>
>>
>> Turns out to be a bit of a pain, actually, although I have worked around
>> it. But mostly I am surprised. Is this expected?
>>
>
> Yes, this is very much expected! :)
>
> How else would you be able to write macros without ` ?
> Vars needs to resolve to something eventually...
>
> Jim
>
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