From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan =?utf-8?Q?Bockg=C3=A5rd?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Basic Emacs Lisp question Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 11:25:06 +0200 Message-ID: References: <67p1csF2qe3gfU1@mid.dfncis.de> <87od7sa6ke.fsf@kobe.laptop> <85r6cnl5y6.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87ej8n9ol9.fsf@kobe.laptop> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209634924 20684 80.91.229.12 (1 May 2008 09:42:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 09:42:04 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 01 11:42:41 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JrVJJ-0005Fh-AI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 11:42:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58750 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JrVIc-00045B-9W for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 01 May 2008 05:41:58 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: remote5.student.chalmers.se Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1209633919 29335 129.16.29.83 (1 May 2008 09:25:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 09:25:19 +0000 (UTC) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110009 (No Gnus v0.9) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:hOJ8Zxq9qB1Ba1p+ZPg137fh1Wc= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:158308 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:53673 Archived-At: Giorgos Keramidas writes: > I am only beginning to grasp Lisp myself too, so I wasn't aware that > '-quoting produces the list in the reader :) It doesn't. The parentheses produce the list in the reader. The `quote' special form returns its argument without evaluating it. (read "'(0 1 2)") => (quote (0 1 2)) (quote (0 1 2)) => (0 1 2) ; Not a copy -- Johan Bockgård