From: Carlo Zancanaro <carlo@zancanaro.id.au>
To: Felix Lechner <felix.lechner@lease-up.com>
Cc: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: G-exp '#$... vs. (list $#@...)
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2024 21:28:28 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871q49flb7.fsf@zancanaro.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874j96drmd.fsf@lease-up.com> (Felix Lechner via's message of "Wed, 03 Jul 2024 15:42:50 -0700")
Hi Felix!
On Wed, Jul 03 2024, Felix Lechner via wrote:
> '#$something
This expands to a quoted form, so whatever "something" splices in ends
up quoted in the output.
> (list #$@something)
This expands to a (list ...) form, where the elements of "something" end
up spliced as the list elements. Each of those elements will be
evaluated in the result, because they aren't quoted.
Carlo
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2024-07-03 22:42 G-exp '#$... vs. (list $#@...) Felix Lechner via
2024-07-04 11:28 ` Carlo Zancanaro [this message]
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