Re: Weird behavior of hash-table

[tomas]

On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 06:00:43AM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Hi tomás,
> 
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > So the best thing for one's brain is to train it to read #(...)
> > as some weird relative of '(...)?
> 
> Yes.  They are both literals, and no part of a literal is evaluated.
> #(...) is actually a shorthand for '#(...) [...]

Aha. Thanks for setting my light bulb on fire :-)

[...]

> > Is there a corresponding weird relative of `(...)?
> 
> Yes.  Remember that #(...) is a shorthand for '#(...).  You can replace
> the "'" with "`", just as you would for a quasiquoted list [...]

Thanks, Mark!

IMO Andy and you are doing invaluable work for Guile (and Scheme in
general) by making it mentally more accessible. Again, thanks.

Cheers
-- tomás

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