backquote

[Don Cohen <donc@vaxa.isi.edu>]

I don't think the argument names are at all relevant - you're
welcome to use different names.  Also, my specifications were
already completely general, since the car could have been a
lambda expression.
Your reply provides a solution to a different problem.  I agree 
that if I really only wanted to define protected functions, that 
would be fine.  However the question was really about whether 
nested backquotes are really adequate for writing programs that 
write programs that ...
Perhaps you believe that should never be necessary.  I admit it
doesn't seem to arise every day, but I've seen it several times.