From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Basic Emacs Lisp question
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:56:17 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87od7sa6ke.fsf@kobe.laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 67p1csF2qe3gfU1@mid.dfncis.de
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:49:19 +0200, Matthias Pfeifer <pfemat@web.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> What is the difference between
>
> (list 0 nil -1)
>
> and
>
> '(0 nil -1)
In Common Lisp (list 0 nil -1) is required to 'cons' a new list every
time it is called. Quoting the list as in '(0 nil -1) is not required
to build a new list. In fact, in compiled code it may reuse the same
static object over and over again.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-29 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-29 15:49 Basic Emacs Lisp question Matthias Pfeifer
2008-04-29 17:56 ` Giorgos Keramidas [this message]
2008-04-30 1:21 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-04-30 8:37 ` Tim X
2008-04-30 15:26 ` David Kastrup
2008-04-30 18:36 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2008-05-01 9:25 ` Johan Bockgård
2008-04-29 21:14 ` tyler
2008-04-30 8:31 ` Tim X
2008-05-05 13:38 ` tyler
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2014-09-09 19:35 Basic emacs lisp question Ken
2014-09-09 19:52 ` Thorsten Jolitz
2014-09-09 21:05 ` Thorsten Jolitz
[not found] ` <mailman.8562.1410296811.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-09 23:02 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <mailman.8561.1410292382.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-09 20:07 ` Emanuel Berg
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2014-09-09 20:44 ` Emanuel Berg
[not found] ` <87y4tsts4t.fsf@gmail.com>
2014-09-09 22:31 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-09-10 0:49 ` Robert Thorpe
2014-09-10 1:21 ` Ken
2014-09-10 6:00 ` Glyn Millington
2014-09-10 14:31 ` Ken
2014-09-10 13:12 ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-10 14:06 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2014-09-10 14:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-10 15:45 ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-10 16:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-09-11 11:10 ` Phillip Lord
2014-09-11 11:10 ` Phillip Lord
[not found] ` <mailman.8619.1410357764.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-09-10 21:39 ` Emanuel Berg
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