Re: quote and UNEVALLED?

[Andreas Schwab]

address@hidden (Pavel Janík) writes:

|> Hi,
|> 
|> quote is defined as:
|> 
|> DEFUN ("quote", Fquote, Squote, 1, UNEVALLED, 0,
|> 
|> I know that it is crazy to use something like (quote first second), but it
|> IS possible now. The doc-string says:
|> 
|> quote is a special form.
|> (quote ARG)
|> 
|> Return the argument, without evaluating it.  `(quote x)' yields `x'.
                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

|> Shouldn't we fix the DEUN?

There is no other way to describe unevalled args.  quote and function are
the only special forms that have a fixed argument list (not counting
interactive, which is even more special).  If necessary an explicit check
must be added to the body.  But IMHO it is not worth doing, since they are
supposed to be use via the ' and #' read macros which don't allow more
than one argument anyway.

Andreas.

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