Re: ask for the value of several variables at once

[Emanuel Berg]

Emanuel Berg wrote:

> OK, but better (and much more difficult) to do
> a function/macro which is used like this,
> NB with no string or quotes to protect the
> original symbols:
>
>     (vars-and-values var-1 ... var-n)
>
> which should give a list:
>
>     (var-1 var-1-value ... var-n var-n-value)
>
> or
>
>     ((var-1 var-1-value) ... (var-n var-n-value))
>
> Do it today - in a different way :)

This is how far I got - next step to make it
work with a list of vars...

    (defmacro echo-var (var)
      `(list ,(symbol-name var) ,var) )
    ;; (echo-var fill-column) ; ("fill-column" 47)

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