From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How the backquote and the comma really work? Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 18:41:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4e2c886a-6307-4477-b799-61866429dbcd@googlegroups.com> References: <877fqrbpij.fsf@web.de> (message from Michael Heerdegen on Thu, 25 Jun 2015 20:40:20 +0200)> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435283120 16974 80.91.229.3 (26 Jun 2015 01:45:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 01:45:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 26 03:45:19 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8Ihi-0004h0-Re for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Jun 2015 03:45:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57981 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z8Ihi-0007lf-2v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:45:18 -0400 X-Received: by 10.69.3.193 with SMTP id by1mr62921791pbd.7.1435282908479; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 18:41:48 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.50.134.201 with SMTP id pm9mr1955igb.1.1435282908300; Thu, 25 Jun 2015 18:41:48 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!h15no8705267igd.0!news-out.google.com!kd3ni17585igb.0!nntp.google.com!h15no8705257igd.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=117.195.54.100; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 117.195.54.100 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 01:41:48 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:212904 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:105189 Archived-At: On Friday, June 26, 2015 at 5:25:35 AM UTC+5:30, Robert Thorpe wrote: > Michael Heerdegen writes: > > > Here is the expression the reader generates for "`',foo": > > > > (read "`',foo") ==> (\` (quote (\, foo))) > > > > (be sure to eval with print-quoted nil, the default). > > In some cases the commands "macroexpand" and "macroexpand-all" can be > useful for finding out what complicated types of quoting do. I was poking around in the new (and very promising) use-package of John Wiegley to figure out some (my) bugs in understanding use-package. And so using macroexpand to see what exactly it is up to. And seeing a lot of '...'s for deep nested structures Whats the recommended way for looking inside these?