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A comment on Reading a Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp. Parent comment

Re:Reading a Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp by pfdietz on Thursday February 22, 2024 @11:15AM (#39469246)
One reason to not allow this is that it breaks the equivalence that (for example)

   (progn <form>)
is equivalent to

    <form>
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Re:Reading a Programmer's Guide to Common Lisp by martinflack on Thursday February 22, 2024 @12:39PM (#39470415)
^ This is huge. A lot of top-level macro usage would be really annoying to implement if wrapping a PROGN around top-level commands neutered their effect.
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