Re: How the backquote and the comma really work?

[Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> I decided that the time has come that I finally
> approach the scary backquote-comma duo. (While
> I understand it superficially, I’d like to get it
> right and thoroughly this time.) So my question is
> whether my mental model (see below) is correct.

The backtick isn't complicated at all. Besides you got
it right.

Here is how it works:

    '(this is not a five)

    `(this is still not a five) ; no reason for backtick here

    (let ((five 5))
      `(now it is a ,five) )

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