From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Elisp - quoting or not?
Date: Sat, 05 Dec 2020 08:21:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r1o4zsb1.fsf@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SJ0PR03MB54559027D9A8450F2F84BA1B9BF00@SJ0PR03MB5455.namprd03.prod.outlook.com>
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* 2020-12-04 21:15:00-08, David Masterson wrote:
> I give up -- what's the proper way of doing this?
>
> (setq ab '("a" . "b")
> cd '("c" . "d")
> abcd '(ab cd))
>
> What I want is a result for abcd to be '(("a" . "b") ("c" . "d")). I
> imagine I need to use cons/car/cdr, but I'm not sure how.
I would not use quotes there:
(setq ab (cons "a" "b")
cd (cons "c" "d")
abcd (list ab cd))
You can use "'", "`" and "," reader "macros" if you want:
(setq ab '("a" . "b")
cd '("c" . "d")
abcd `(,ab ,cd))
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-05 6:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-05 5:15 Elisp - quoting or not? David Masterson
2020-12-05 6:12 ` An Liu
2020-12-05 6:12 ` An Liu
2020-12-05 8:57 ` tomas
2020-12-05 12:31 ` Pankaj Jangid
2020-12-05 6:14 ` Alexis Roda
2020-12-06 2:11 ` David Masterson
2020-12-05 6:21 ` Teemu Likonen [this message]
2020-12-05 6:42 ` Arthur Miller
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