DEFMACRO doesn't create closures about jscl HOT 4 CLOSED

Yes, that is right. To be accurate, only toplevel defmacro is supported, as it is necessary to bootstrap. Non-toplevel defmacro is not very useful yet because they have not effects at compile-time, but it has to be supported.

We would need to implement a full eval-when before fixing this.

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Enclosing DEFUNs or DEFMACROs in FLETs or MACROLETs can be quite handy when defining similar functions or macros within the CL package. For example, this is done quite a bit in SBCL:

(macrolet ((def `(defun ...))) (def foo ...) (def bar ...))

I actually found when trying to define the !DEFUN and !DEFMACRO using a FLET-bound function to strip the "!" from the start of the name.

I agree they're not widely useful though, and I understand if this is a low priority feature.

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Note that macrolet is a little bit different. If it is toplevel, the body is also processed as toplevel. But it does not create a lexical closure. There is not macrolet yet, but it should not be very hard to implement it and process as toplevel when it is.

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defmacro can now create closures, but only in JSCL itself, not during bootstrapping.

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