I learnt more about all the strange looking `', creatures by cursorily reading the first link and casually looking at the flip-flop diagram seen on the second link.
http://www.lisperati.com/syntax.html http://www.lisperati.com/looking.html I am surprised that a book that seems so playful could convey a fundamental/foundational idea in such simple and succinct terms. IMO, Elisp manual is too dense here to be really useful. Jambunathan K. --