help-guix
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Newbie packagers


From: Vincent Legoll
Subject: Re: Newbie packagers
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:43:01 +0200

>> A question remains, why do the configure flags need to be a quoted list ?
>
> It’s a list of arguments that gets passed to a function down the road.

but as the list of arguments is already in a quoted list, it is quoted and not
interpreted here.

'(toto (titi)) => (toto (titi))

and not an error telling titi is unbound variable.

'(toto '(titi)) => (toto (quote (titi)))

there's an additional quote level...

-- 
Vincent Legoll



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]