Re: :name or 'name?

[Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>]

On 2013-01-21, Christopher Schmidt wrote:

> Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com> writes:
>> Is that usual use :name instead of 'name in elisp code (in places
>> where you need symbol)?
>
>     (info "(elisp)Symbol Type")
>     (info "(elisp)Quoting")
>
Seems that I understand and already know those topics...

My question is that usual instead of quoting symbol use "keyword symbol" which
you don't need to quote...

So you can write:

  (put :mylib-error 'error-message "Unknown mylib error")

instead of:

  (put 'mylib-error 'error-message "Unknown mylib error")

or:

  (put (quote mylib-error) 'error-message "Unknown mylib error")

or

  (put (make-symbol "mylib-error") 'error-message "Unknown mylib error")

So avoid quoting by special naming conventions...

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Best regards!