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;; Various useful macros

;; Copyright (c) Konrad Hinsen, 2009. All rights reserved.  The use
;; and distribution terms for this software are covered by the Eclipse
;; Public License 1.0 (http://opensource.org/licenses/eclipse-1.0.php)
;; which can be found in the file epl-v10.html at the root of this
;; distribution.  By using this software in any fashion, you are
;; agreeing to be bound by the terms of this license.  You must not
;; remove this notice, or any other, from this software.

(ns clojure.contrib.macros)

(defmacro const
  "Evaluate the constant expression expr at compile time."
  [expr]
  (eval expr))

(defmacro letfn
  "A variant of let for local function definitions. fn-bindings consists
   of name/args/body triples, with (letfn [name args body] ...)
   being equivalent to (let [name (fn name args body)] ...)."
  [fn-bindings exprs]
  (let [makefn (fn [[name args body]] (list name (list 'fn name args body)))
	fns (vec (apply concat (map makefn (partition 3 fn-bindings))))]
  `(let ~fns ~exprs)))