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From: "(" <paren@disroot.org>
To: "jgart" <jgart@dismail.de>
Cc: "Guix Help" <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Don't Unquote Me
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 20:32:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CNLWAUM86WTK.2A3LFL0OTPV5F@guix-framework> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221014133807.GB14915@dismail.de>

On Fri Oct 14, 2022 at 7:38 PM BST, jgart wrote:
> > Nope; they're special built-in forms like ``lambda'' and ``define''.
>
> So, they are ordinary functions defined in guile?
>
> Or by built-ins you mean that they are implemented in C?
>
> I'll read through the guile source code a bit later ;()

They are fundumental forms. You cannot define ``quote'' et al in terms of any
other feature. Just like there's no way to implement ``lambda'' in Guile,
because ``lambda'' is a fundumental form. So yes, they will be implemented in
C as part of the Guile core.

    -- (


  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-14 19:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-14  4:03 Don't Unquote Me jgart
2022-10-14  6:59 ` (
2022-10-14 18:38   ` jgart
2022-10-14 19:32     ` ( [this message]
2022-10-14 23:40       ` Philip McGrath
2022-10-15 15:05     ` Akib Azmain Turja

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