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From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: hash strangeness
Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 23:25:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fve12qae.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.12618.1414961152.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com> writes:

> Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> 
>> () Tom <adatgyujto <at> gmail.com>
>> () Sun, 2 Nov 2014 12:09:31 +0000 (UTC)
>> 
>>    At least I did not expect that. :)
>> 
>> a quote before literal data w/ latent intent to modify?
>
> I expect '(a b c) to create a new list with these symbols
> every time it runs.

You expect wrong.


> The current behavior (at least in the given context) seems
> unuseful, though I'm not a lisp guru, so it's possible
> this behavior has its uses in other cases.

Use list, not quote, if you want to create a new list:

    (list 'a 'b 'c)

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__                 http://www.informatimago.com/
“The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-11-02 22:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-02 11:20 hash strangeness Tom
2014-11-02 12:09 ` Tom
2014-11-02 18:20   ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-11-02 20:45     ` Tom
     [not found]     ` <mailman.12618.1414961152.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-02 22:25       ` Pascal J. Bourguignon [this message]
2014-11-02 22:48       ` Barry Margolin
2014-11-03 21:29         ` Tom
2014-11-04  1:57           ` Robert Thorpe
2014-11-04  2:16           ` Michael Heerdegen
     [not found]       ` <<barmar-14233C.17480902112014@88-209-239-213.giganet.hu>
2014-11-04  3:04         ` Drew Adams
2014-11-04  7:39           ` Marcin Borkowski
     [not found] <mailman.12577.1414927271.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-11-02 18:43 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-11-02 20:48   ` Tom

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