From: Thierry Emery <see.sig@spamfoil.invalid>
Subject: Re: nested backquotes
Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 20:21:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87acms1jl0.fsf@spamfoil.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: vpqmzqsbj7l.fsf@ecrins.imag.fr
Hi,
Matthieu Moy <MatthieuNOSPAM.Moy@imag.fr.invalid> writes:
> "rgb" <rbielaws@i1.net> writes:
>
>> > I'm experiencing problems with nested backquotes in Emacs lisp:
>> >
>> > Emacs 21 says:
>> >
>> > ELISP> ``( ,,(+ 1 2))
>> > (cons
>> > (+ 1 2))
>>
>> On 22.0.50 I'm getting (list 3)
>
> Surprisingly, backquote.el hasn't changed much. Loading backquote.el
> from CVS on my Emacs 21 "works" (in the sense that it doesn't break my
> Emacs), but still gets the same result.
>
> So, I'm still looking for a portable solution ... :-(
(` (` ( (, (, (+ 1 2))))))
tested on GNU Emacs 21.4 and 22.0.50, and on XEmacs 21.4.17,
consistently returns :
(list 3)
Hoping this helps,
Thierry
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-18 18:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-18 15:13 nested backquotes Matthieu Moy
2005-05-18 15:50 ` rgb
2005-05-18 16:19 ` Matthieu Moy
2005-05-18 18:21 ` Thierry Emery [this message]
2005-05-20 15:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-20 15:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-20 16:05 ` Matthieu Moy
2005-05-20 20:25 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-21 9:51 ` Matthieu Moy
2005-05-21 10:02 ` Matthieu Moy
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