From: Diego Sevilla Ruiz <dsevilla@ditec.um.es>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Error in nested backquoting
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2013 13:00:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51D1613C.30406@ditec.um.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mvm61wug1i6.fsf@hawking.suse.de>
On 01/07/13 09:53, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Diego Sevilla Ruiz <dsevilla@ditec.um.es> writes:
>
>> In backquote expansion, the symbol for backquote (`) is treated
>> specially for nested backquoting, but its alias, backquote (if it is
>> intended for it to be used from elisp programs) is not correctly evaluated
>> in nesting.
>
> Since backquote expansion is purely syntactical, I don't think the
> backquote symbol should have any significance in the process.
So does that mean that using `backquote' as a symbol to represent ` is
disqualified? (As opposed, for example, of either using `quote' or ' for
quoting.)
Best regards,
diego.
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Diego Sevilla Ruiz -- http://ditec.um.es/~dsevilla/ -- dsevilla@um.es _.___
Dep. Ingeniería y Tecnología de Computadores, Facultad de Informática D|TEC
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-01 11:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-30 22:45 Error in nested backquoting Diego Sevilla Ruiz
2013-07-01 7:53 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-07-01 11:00 ` Diego Sevilla Ruiz [this message]
2013-07-01 11:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-07-01 12:51 ` Andreas Röhler
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