From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: hash strangeness Date: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 23:25:45 +0100 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87fve12qae.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com> References: <87fve1v50t.fsf@zigzag.favinet> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414967424 28547 80.91.229.3 (2 Nov 2014 22:30:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 22:30:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 02 23:30:19 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xl3f8-00026e-JS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 23:30:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59542 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xl3f8-0004e3-5N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 17:30:18 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Trace: individual.net nHZWaK6cciYj48K6FuYmggVZtaejNB+urDrNsnq1AQUfTWN5uG Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZTU3YmU5MThhMjUwZmRkZmUzZmFkZTQ4YmI1NDI5ZDhiN2FkY2RiNw== sha1:ORqnEJYT4IcP7R4lc3bGu6+QN5w= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:208417 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100692 Archived-At: Tom writes: > Thien-Thi Nguyen gnu.org> writes: > >> >> () Tom 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 dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.” -- Carl Bass CEO Autodesk