Re: How the backquote and the comma really work?

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2015-06-25, at 20:22, Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
>> Seeing a simplistic (though working in typical/correct cases) version
>> might be rather illuminating, no?
>
> Yes.  Want to give it a try?

Sure.  I'll get back here with some code (notice: it might make some
time, from a week to a few months - it's not the only thing I have to
do;-)) to discuss.

>> > It's also a reader macro so that you can write
>> >
>> >   `thing
>
>> Interesting.  Where is that defined?
>
> Since you can't define reader macros via Emacs Lisp, it's hardcoded in
> the C sources, "lread.c" AFAICT.

OK.  I'll look into the manual on reader macros, I'm not fluent enough
in C to read that code.

> Michael.

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
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Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Adam Mickiewicz University