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Re: [O] [babel] What is `, (backquote comma)?


From: Štěpán Němec
Subject: Re: [O] [babel] What is `, (backquote comma)?
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:26:14 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:05:12 +0200
Thorsten wrote:

> thanks Nick and Stepan, 
>
> "evaluate the form after "," and quote the result"
>
> that made me understand what its all about. 
> I just read the backquote section Elisp manual, it does not cover these
> strange combiniations of barely distinguable characters, but I may haved
> missed it - its a thick book.

You haven't missed anything. My point was that "the pieces are all
there" -- as Nick pointed out by the rewriting, 'foo is just a
convenient read syntax for (quote foo), so there's nothing special or
new about `',foo, it's still manipulating a list structure in a way the
manual describes.

I'm sure you can find more resources on the net, as the same notation is
used in other Lisps, in particular Common Lisp and Scheme.

Two examples I know of:
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_df.htm
http://bc.tech.coop/blog/041205.html

(And by the way, if you really find ' and ` "barely distinguishable",
perhaps you might consider using another font? It's an important
distinction to make, as you've now found. ;-))

-- 
Štěpán



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