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On 2009-06-10 12:12 (UTC), Teemu Likonen wrote:

> Actually only in your first, broken example "symbolp" and "symbol-value"
> get a list like "(quote foo)" as argument and thus they complain. In
> your latter examples they get symbol "foo" as argument. The reason is
> the double quoting.

I meant "the reason [for this difference] is the [previously mentioned]
double quoting".