Wouldn't it be pretty easy to write an Arc (or even Arc') program to do this for you automatically? My first macro in Arc' would be "arcp" a macro which took A

Wouldn't it be pretty easy to write an Arc (or even Arc') program to do this for you automatically? My first macro in Arc' would be "arcp" a macro which took Arc code and translated it to Arc' code. Then you just wrap every file in: (arcp ;;file contents ) So, based on that, Arc' has an extra macro compared to Arc and extra entries in each file, and thus isn't as succinct as Arc and thus isn't as powerful as Arc -- if we're going to be philosophical about it.