Re: hash strangeness

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>]

Tom <adatgyujto@gmail.com> writes:

> Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn <at> gnu.org> writes:
>
>> 
>> () Tom <adatgyujto <at> gmail.com>
>> () Sun, 2 Nov 2014 12:09:31 +0000 (UTC)
>> 
>>    At least I did not expect that. :)
>> 
>> a quote before literal data w/ latent intent to modify?
>
> I expect '(a b c) to create a new list with these symbols
> every time it runs.

You expect wrong.


> The current behavior (at least in the given context) seems
> unuseful, though I'm not a lisp guru, so it's possible
> this behavior has its uses in other cases.

Use list, not quote, if you want to create a new list:

    (list 'a 'b 'c)

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