Re: add-hook

[Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org>]

() Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com>
() Thu, 07 Jun 2007 03:20:33 +0300

   Perhaps someone could explain why it is lambda
   functions don't need to be quoted in this context?

in elisp, the form `(lambda ARGS BODY)' is self-quoting in
all contexts, like numbers and strings.  sometimes you see:

 (function (lambda ...))
 #'(lambda ...)

these serve as hints to the byte compiler that the form
should be compiled.  on the other hand, if you see:

 '(lambda ...)

then that tells the compiler to treat the form as data (DON'T compile).
if you aren't byte compiling, quoting is strictly optional.

thi