what is the best way to do funcall like thing with macro?

[knorth55]

I want to do funcall or apply like thing with macro such as cond. What is the best way to do it? I do these thing with eval.

(setq a 1)
(eval (append '(cond) '(((equal a 1) (print "hoge")) (t nil))))
;; "hoge"

[Affonso-Gui]

I cannot think of much besides writing another macro that would do the list operations and act like a funcall or apply. Of course this is only hiding the eval under the defmacro stuff, so I don't think there is anything wrong in going for the eval here.

A simplified version could be something like this:

(defmacro macro-apply (fn arg-lst) (cons fn arg-lst))
(defmacro macro-funcall (fn &rest args) (cons fn args))

(setq a 1)
(macro-apply cond (((equal a 1) (print "hoge")) (t nil)))
;; "hoge"

[knorth55]

@Affonso-Gui thank you! I will use eval.