I've read what he has to say about backquotes, but he really doesn't
give as clear and concise a method for figuring out what's going on as
Graham does.
To evaluate a backquoted expression, you remove the outermost
backquote and each matching ~, and replace the expression following
each matching
For the sake of contradicting myself, in this paper Alan Bawden
explains quasi-quote much better than I can.
https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/60346/1/60346.pdf
Note the explanation towards the end of defmacro and constructs such
as ',' (in clojure I believe it would be '~' )
Also note that Clojure
For nested backquotes, Paul Graham in ANSI Common Lisp gives the
clearest explanation. He makes it look almost trivial. As a matter of
fact, once you get the hang of it, it's not at all that complicated.
I've pretty much verified that what he says concerning CL backquotes
applies perfectly to
Let Over Lambda by Hoyte contains a very lucidly well-written
discussion of quotation levels in macros. It also includes a pretty
useful technique for being explicit about variable capture. The code
is in Common Lisp, but will mostly only differ syntactically from the
Clojure code (for the
For example:
(defmacro creator [param]
`(defmacro created [p] `(the code...)) ;; note the nested quote...
how to resolve that? any examples?
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On Aug 10, 3:20 pm, Dragan Djuric draga...@gmail.com wrote:
For example:
(defmacro creator [param]
`(defmacro created [p] `(the code...)) ;; note the nested quote...
how to resolve that? any examples?
Although I wouldn't cite my own code as a necessarily *good* or easy
to understand
