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

[Jude DaShiell]

another, post-el.On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, ?t?p?n N?mec wrote:

> 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. ;-))
> 
> 

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