From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 4290@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com,
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.1; (elisp)Anonymous Functions - unclear about #'
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:41:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvzl90hs0t.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87my50gbtq.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:02:09 -0400")
> Thanks for spotting this.
> Hmm---is `function' still useful for anything?
Well, it's just as useful as ever. I.e. it's useless when you consider
that its implementation is the same as `quote', but it's otherwise
indispensable (e.g. look at the implementation of the `lambda' macro in
subr.el).
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-12 19:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-12 2:02 23.1; (elisp)Anonymous Functions - unclear about #' Chong Yidong
2009-09-12 6:13 ` Drew Adams
2009-09-12 19:41 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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