You'll find lispm's, from a sibling comment, even clearer: (defmacro debug-it (&body expressions) `(progn ,@(mapcar (lambda (expression)

You'll find lispm's, from a sibling comment, even clearer: (defmacro debug-it (&body expressions) `(progn ,@(mapcar (lambda (expression) `(format t "~%~a: ~a" ',expression ,expression)) expressions))) That's Common Lisp. I probably could have made mine similarly clean, but I was too lazy to do so :-). Anyways, hats off to lispm, because he's the one who actually did it.