changeset 9769:6a9124f418db

(cl-macroexpand): keep documentation from `macroexpand'.
author Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
date Tue, 01 Nov 1994 04:21:03 +0000
parents 61b41f223695
children 9b9006f58e48
files lisp/emacs-lisp/cl.el
diffstat 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl.el	Tue Nov 01 04:20:43 1994 +0000
+++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/cl.el	Tue Nov 01 04:21:03 1994 +0000
@@ -254,6 +254,13 @@
 			     (defalias 'macroexpand 'cl-macroexpand)))
 
 (defun cl-macroexpand (cl-macro &optional cl-env)
+  "Return result of expanding macros at top level of FORM.
+If FORM is not a macro call, it is returned unchanged.
+Otherwise, the macro is expanded and the expansion is considered
+in place of FORM.  When a non-macro-call results, it is returned.
+
+The second optional arg ENVIRONMENT species an environment of macro
+definitions to shadow the loaded ones for use in file byte-compilation."
   (let ((cl-macro-environment cl-env))
     (while (progn (setq cl-macro (funcall cl-old-macroexpand cl-macro cl-env))
 		  (and (symbolp cl-macro)