[postmodern-devel] Building s-sql on the fly

[Phil]

On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 16:08 +0100, Maciek Pasternacki wrote:
> Phil <zaries at global.co.za> writes:
> 
> > I am looking for an example of how to create a s-sql query on the fly. I
> > am sure I saw something like that along the line on some website but I
> > cant find it again.
> 
> Take a look at http://repo.or.cz/w/cl-trane.git?a=blob;f=src/taxonomy.lisp;h=5776b2b42dde277f9478c0df621ffa9742106c06;hb=HEAD
> 
> Query building takes place e.g. on lines 274-304 and 365-394.  Second
> example may be interesting: it's a way to generate CASE statement from
> list of values (it may be generalized to receive alists, I just needed
> the order), to effectively make an inline-dictionary without writing
> the CASE statement by hand.
> 
> Regards,
> Maciej.
> 

Firstly thanx for the example.

Secondly, this might be a stupid question but being new to lisp I would
have expected those functions to be macro's you are using the `. Could
you please explain the reasoning behind them being functions.