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Re: ' and non '


From: AlF
Subject: Re: ' and non '
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:06:48 -0700
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Barry Margolin wrote:


They're equivalent. Single-quote in Lisp prevents the following expression from being evaluated. Numbers evaluate to themselves, so the quote is redundant.

Stylistically, it's rarely appropriate to quote self-evaluating data types.


thx for the explanation ...


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