From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: hash strangeness Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 20:45:21 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87fve1v50t.fsf@zigzag.favinet> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1414961181 713 80.91.229.3 (2 Nov 2014 20:46:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 20:46:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 02 21:46:15 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xl22O-0001Gy-Ux for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:46:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59222 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xl22O-000877-Kc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 15:46:12 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:33901) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xl21x-00086n-8H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 15:45:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xl21l-0002b1-Gs for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 15:45:45 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47387) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xl21l-0002ak-B9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 15:45:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Xl21j-0000yq-Ev for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:45:31 +0100 Original-Received: from 94-21-242-67.pool.digikabel.hu ([94.21.242.67]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:45:31 +0100 Original-Received: from adatgyujto by 94-21-242-67.pool.digikabel.hu with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:45:31 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 94.21.242.67 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:33.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/33.0) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100690 Archived-At: Thien-Thi Nguyen gnu.org> writes: > > () Tom gmail.com> > () Sun, 2 Nov 2014 12:09:31 +0000 (UTC) > > At least I did not expect that. :) > > a quote before literal data w/ latent intent to modify? I expect '(a b c) to create a new list with these symbols every time it runs. The current behavior (at least in the given context) seems unuseful, though I'm not a lisp guru, so it's possible this behavior has its uses in other cases.