From: Nikolaj Schumacher <me@nschum.de>
To: harven <harven@free.fr>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: problem understanding font-lock-defaults structure
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 19:17:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2zlldit77.fsf@nschum.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2ljwxaixd.fsf@free.fr> (harven@free.fr's message of "Thu\, 09 Oct 2008 17\:26\:38 +0200")
harven <harven@free.fr> wrote:
> Xah <xahlee@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> ... i always thought that the syntactical form
>>
>> '(...)
>>
>> is just equivalent to
>>
>> (quote ...)
>
> From the elisp manual,
> ... Thus, the read syntax `'x' is an abbreviation for `(quote x)' ...
> So '(...) is equivalent to (quote (...))
This is essential, too. Because otherwise (quote a) could mean either
'a or '(a).
regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-09 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-08 18:46 problem understanding font-lock-defaults structure Xah
2008-10-08 21:22 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.619.1223500981.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-09 0:02 ` Xah
2008-10-09 0:54 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2008-10-09 2:25 ` Kevin Rodgers
[not found] ` <mailman.643.1223519147.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-09 21:18 ` Xah
2008-10-09 11:13 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.637.1223513718.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-09 15:04 ` Xah
2008-10-09 15:26 ` harven
2008-10-09 17:17 ` Nikolaj Schumacher [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.677.1223550826.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-09 15:29 ` Xah
2008-10-09 17:16 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.719.1223572620.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-09 21:40 ` Xah
2008-10-09 23:27 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
[not found] ` <mailman.739.1223594868.25473.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-10-10 0:20 ` Xah
2008-10-10 0:45 ` Tim X
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