[cl-who-devel] Re: Newbie confusion

[Vamsee Kanakala]

Sorry, don't bother - I didn't realize that I have to use esc for
displaying strings - been jumping through all kinds of hoops to find out
why the text wasn't showing up :)


Vamsee Kanakala wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
> I suspect this has got to do with not properly understanding what gensym
> does, but I think this should work, but I'm only getting empty <li>
> elements from the list-items function. Where am I going wrong?
> 
> (defun list-items ()
>   (let ((=value= (gensym)))
>     (loop for =value= to 15 collecting
> 	 `((:li (write-to-string ,=value=))))))
> 
> (defmacro show-errors ()
>   `(with-html-output (*standard-output*)
>      (:div :id "errorExplanation"
> 	   (:ul ,@(list-items)))))
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Vamsee.
>