Why can't I expand a macro inside (quail-define-rules)?
(defmacro quail-test ()
`("c" ["success!"]))
(quail-define-package "experiment" "Experiment" "X" t
"Just an experiment."
nil t t nil nil nil nil nil nil nil t)
(quail-define-rules
("a" ?!)
("b" ["circus"])
(quail-test))
quail-define-rules, but it sounds like a problem that a lot of macros have. Well, not so much of a problem as misconception about how they must be used. The way macros are expanded is by repeatedly callingmacroexpand, so one macro can produce a tree with macros in it, and it will be expanded on the next cycle. However, macros rarely callmacroexpandduring their own expansion. The later is uncommon, and if a macro does that, it will usually mention it in its documentation. Think about macros as defining syntax rules, then you'd see that(quail-test)is invalid.