Re: How to quote a list of functions?

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>]

Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> writes:

> Here is an interesting case with apply. If "find-f" is
> sharp quoted, it won't work!
>
> (defun find-file-at-line (&optional other-window)
>   (interactive "P")
>   (let ((possible-filename (thing-at-point 'filename))
>         (find-f (if other-window 'find-file-other-window 'find-file)) )
>     (if (and possible-filename (file-exists-p possible-filename))
>           (apply find-f `(,possible-filename))
>       (progn
>         (forward-char 1)
>         (find-file-at-line) ))))

Of course, here find-f is not the name of a function (the symbol find-f
is not fbound to a function object), it's a variable (the variable named
by the symbol find-f is bound to a symbol denoting a function).

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