From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How the backquote and the comma really work?
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 17:06:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ioaav78z.fsf@nl106-137-147.student.uu.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87vbebg1fs.fsf@mbork.pl
Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
> I decided that the time has come that I finally
> approach the scary backquote-comma duo. (While
> I understand it superficially, I’d like to get it
> right and thoroughly this time.) So my question is
> whether my mental model (see below) is correct.
The backtick isn't complicated at all. Besides you got
it right.
Here is how it works:
'(this is not a five)
`(this is still not a five) ; no reason for backtick here
(let ((five 5))
`(now it is a ,five) )
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-26 15:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-25 17:09 How the backquote and the comma really work? Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-25 17:33 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-06-25 18:06 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-25 18:22 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-06-25 18:39 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-25 18:44 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-25 19:06 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-07-10 11:36 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-12 15:54 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-07-12 19:55 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-12 20:33 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-14 18:17 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-07-14 22:08 ` Emanuel Berg
2015-07-21 22:08 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-07-24 13:01 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-08-11 11:41 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-12 15:29 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <mailman.8207.1439393377.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-12 16:30 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-08-23 8:30 ` Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.110.1440318650.11330.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-08-23 16:46 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2015-07-21 21:54 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-08-11 10:15 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-08-11 17:20 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2015-08-12 15:01 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-07-21 21:50 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-06-25 18:10 ` Drew Adams
2015-06-25 18:40 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-06-25 18:53 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-25 19:39 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-06-25 20:05 ` Drew Adams
2015-06-25 20:18 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-25 20:37 ` Drew Adams
2015-06-25 23:55 ` Robert Thorpe
[not found] ` <mailman.5697.1435276533.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-26 1:41 ` Rusi
2015-06-26 14:24 ` Michael Heerdegen
[not found] ` <mailman.5716.1435328741.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-26 14:35 ` Rusi
2015-06-26 14:51 ` Michael Heerdegen
2015-06-25 18:46 ` Marcin Borkowski
2015-06-26 7:31 ` tomas
2015-06-26 13:48 ` Drew Adams
2015-06-26 14:06 ` tomas
2015-06-26 15:06 ` Emanuel Berg [this message]
2015-07-12 17:38 ` Vaidheeswaran C
[not found] <mailman.5657.1435252169.904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-06-30 16:27 ` sokobania.01
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