From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Thorsten <quintfall@googlemail.com>
Cc: nicholas.dokos@hp.com, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [babel] What is `, (backquote comma)?
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 14:42:15 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <30382.1316630535@alphaville.dokosmarshall.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Thorsten <quintfall@googlemail.com> of "Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:37:42 +0200." <867h51x0d5.fsf@googlemail.com>
Thorsten <quintfall@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> in org-babel-expand-body:scheme (and
> e.g. org-babel-expand-body:emacs-lisp) I encounter something like this:
>
> (lambda (var) (format "%S" (print `(,(car var) ',(cdr var)))))
>
> While this part
> `(,(car var) ...)
> is explained in the manual (backquote and unquote), this part
> `(... ',(cdr var))
> is a bit mysterious to me, and I do not find information about
> backquote( ... backquote comma ())
> in the manuals or the web.
>
> Is that Emacs Lisp? What does that mean?
If you write it like this:
`(,(car var) (quote ,(cdr var)))
does it become clearer? This form is equivalent to the previous one.
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-21 18:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-21 17:37 [babel] What is `, (backquote comma)? Thorsten
2011-09-21 18:42 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2011-09-21 18:45 ` Nick Dokos
2011-09-21 18:46 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-09-21 19:05 ` Thorsten
2011-09-21 19:26 ` Štěpán Němec
2011-09-22 2:53 ` Jude DaShiell
2011-09-21 19:48 ` Jambunathan K
2011-09-21 22:02 ` Thorsten
2011-09-22 7:10 ` peter.frings
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