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Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol
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Emanuel Berg |
Subject: |
Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol |
Date: |
Sat, 05 Nov 2022 13:57:19 +0100 |
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Michael Heerdegen wrote:
>> because `quote' does not evaluate anything, not even
>> itself
>
> I'm not so happy with this sentence, however. Not sure what
> you intended to say.
If you evaluate `quote' you get the argument but it isn't
evaluated, and this doesn't change if the argument is
another quote.
(+ 1 2 3) ; 6
(quote (+ 1 2 3)) ; not evaluated into 6, instead it's a list
(quote (quote (+ 1 2 3))) ; now it's a list with quote as the first element
And so on.
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- Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol, Sam Steingold, 2022/11/08
- Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol, Michael Heerdegen, 2022/11/08
- Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol, Sam Steingold, 2022/11/09
- Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol, Michael Heerdegen, 2022/11/09
- Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol, Emanuel Berg, 2022/11/16
- RE: [External] : Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol, Drew Adams, 2022/11/16
- Re: [External] : Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol, Emanuel Berg, 2022/11/18
- Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol, Michael Heerdegen, 2022/11/04
- Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol,
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