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Re: Basic Emacs Lisp question
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Johan Bockgård |
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Re: Basic Emacs Lisp question |
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Thu, 01 May 2008 11:25:06 +0200 |
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Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> writes:
> I am only beginning to grasp Lisp myself too, so I wasn't aware that
> '-quoting produces the list in the reader :)
It doesn't. The parentheses produce the list in the reader. The
`quote' special form returns its argument without evaluating it.
(read "'(0 1 2)") => (quote (0 1 2))
(quote (0 1 2)) => (0 1 2) ; Not a copy
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Johan Bockgård