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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