From: "B. T. Raven" <btraven@nihilo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: confusion about quote
Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2012 20:35:36 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <k778lk01ri4@news4.newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <afokkoF3hptU1@mid.individual.net>
Die Sun Nov 04 2012 19:55:36 GMT-0600 (Central Standard Time) Will
Parsons <oudeis@nodomain.invalid> scripsit:
> In looking at some elisp that I found somewhere, I see:
>
> (setq whitespace-style (quote (face lines-tail tabs trailing)))
>
> How does this differ from:
>
> (setq whitespace-style '(face lines-tail tabs trailing))
>
> if in fact it does?
>
> (I found the description of the function "quote" to be somewhat
> confusing.)
>
Heus tu, Vilhelme! Here's the straight dope:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Quoting.html
where it says "the read syntax 'x is an abbreviation for (quote x)."
Ed
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2012-11-05 1:55 confusion about quote Will Parsons
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2012-11-05 23:16 ` Will Parsons
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