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From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
To: David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Elisp - quoting or not?
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2020 07:42:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AM0PR06MB6577B4990B0BE42EF517EC2396F00@AM0PR06MB6577.eurprd06.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR03MB54559027D9A8450F2F84BA1B9BF00@SJ0PR03MB5455.namprd03.prod.outlook.com> (David Masterson's message of "Fri, 04 Dec 2020 21:15:00 -0800")

David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com> writes:

> I give up -- what's the proper way of doing this?
>
> (setq ab '("a" . "b")
>       cd '("c" . "d")
>       abcd '(ab cd))
>
> What I want is a result for abcd to be '(("a" . "b") ("c" . "d")). I
> imagine I need to use cons/car/cdr, but I'm not sure how.

I am not sure if you really wish that quite before the conses or not;

If you really wish to have quote try this:


(setq ab '("a" . "b")
      cd '("c" . "d")
      abcd  `'(,ab ,cd))

If not, try this:

(setq ab '("a" . "b")
      cd '("c" . "d")
      abcd `(,ab ,cd))

Helps?



      parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-05  6:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-05  5:15 Elisp - quoting or not? David Masterson
2020-12-05  6:12 ` An Liu
2020-12-05  6:12   ` An Liu
2020-12-05  8:57     ` tomas
2020-12-05 12:31       ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-12-05  6:14 ` Alexis Roda
2020-12-06  2:11   ` David Masterson
2020-12-05  6:21 ` Teemu Likonen
2020-12-05  6:42 ` Arthur Miller [this message]

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