From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto@gmail.com>
To: "Sébastien Vauban" <zthjwsqqafhv@spammotel.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Syntax question for experts
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 10:34:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8763t52zbw.fsf@thievol.homelinux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d4ndecsm.fsf@mundaneum.com> ("Sébastien Vauban"'s message of "Fri, 23 May 2008 08:48:25 +0200")
Sébastien Vauban <zthjwsqqafhv@spammotel.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> A quick question...
>
> I've seen both
>
> (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook
> (lambda ()
> (whatever)))
>
> and
>
> (add-hook 'shell-mode-hook
> '(lambda ()
> (whatever)))
>
> (see the quote in front of lambda).
>
> What is the best writing? With or without the quote?
Without, read that:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/QuotedLambda
> By "best", I mean more portable (XEmacs, etc.), or with a longer
> life-time (won't become erroneous in a couple of years), etc.
>
> Best regards,
> Seb
If you want to quote the lambda , quote it like:
,----
| #'(lambda ()...)
`----
that is the same as
,----
| (function (lambda ()...))
`----
--
A + Thierry
Pub key: http://pgp.mit.edu
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2008-05-23 6:48 Syntax question for experts Sébastien Vauban
2008-05-23 8:34 ` Thierry Volpiatto [this message]
2008-05-23 8:37 ` David Hansen
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