From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Strange change in backquote expansion Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:11:08 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187539893 9160 80.91.229.12 (19 Aug 2007 16:11:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:11:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Sascha Wilde , stefan@xsteve.at, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 19 18:11:31 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IMnNC-0006oE-Co for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:11:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IMnNC-0001PA-39 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:11:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IMnN4-0001IW-3E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:11:22 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IMnN2-0001F8-13 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:11:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IMnN1-0001El-Pq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:11:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IMnN1-0008FJ-11; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:11:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Relay2.suse.de (mail2.suse.de [195.135.221.8]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx2.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id B836822069; Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:11:10 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: I had pancake makeup for brunch! In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Sun\, 19 Aug 2007 11\:52\:09 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:76762 Archived-At: Richard Stallman writes: > ``(,,@(list (list arg)))) > > I don't think that is a meaningful expression. ,@ is supposed to be > used inside of a list, to cause appending into that list. Using it > after a comma means it isn't in any visible list. If you consider ,a <=3D> (\, a) then it actually makes sense. Andreas. --=20 Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstra=DFe 5, 90409 N=FCrnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint =3D 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED= 5 "And now for something completely different."