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Re: problem understanding font-lock-defaults structure

From: Nikolaj Schumacher
Subject: Re: problem understanding font-lock-defaults structure
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:17:32 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (darwin) 
harven <harven@free.fr> wrote:

> Xah <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> ... i always thought that the syntactical form
>>
>> '(...)
>>
>> is just equivalent to
>>
>> (quote ...)
>
> From the elisp manual,
> ...  Thus, the read syntax `'x' is an abbreviation for `(quote x)' ...
> So '(...) is equivalent to (quote (...))

This is essential, too.  Because otherwise (quote a) could mean either
'a or '(a).


regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher
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