From: Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
To: "Tom Breton (Tehom)" <tehom@panix.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Docs submitted (Was Re: Advice sought on managing decision alternatives.)
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:45:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <867425F3-C984-4D41-8BBD-51573C0A9BC9@uva.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1045.65.96.63.84.1234382543.squirrel@mail.panix.com>
On Feb 11, 2009, at 9:02 PM, Tom Breton (Tehom) wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> maybe you can educate me: I have never understood what the "#" does
>> in code like the one you have here. You are using it, so maybe you
>> know?
>>
>> - Carsten
>>
>>
>
> Here, it's #' that it of interest, not # alone.
>
> At the most direct level, it quotes the symbol with `function'
> instead of
> `quote'. For example:
>
> (format "%s" ' 'foo) => "(quote foo)"
> (format "%s" ' #'foo) => "(function foo)"
>
> What it accomplishes:
> * In some contexts, it is needed to get a symbol's function binding
> instead of its value binding.
> * It alerts the byte-compiler that it's seeing a function, so it can
> perform certain optimizations (I don't know offhand exactly what).
> * Stylistically, it alerts the reader.
OK, thanks a lot!
>
>
> It's an imitation of Common Lisp's reader macro #' which does sort
> of
> the same thing.
>
> At the syntax level, it's really a combination of # which
> signals a
> reader macro - though in emacs, it's all hard-coded and inextensible
> - and
> ' which stands for the function-quote reader macro.
>
> FWIW, what I added to lread.c was an extension of the reader macro
> facility at RMS' request, so you definitely asked the right guy.
:-) Thanks for the explanations.
>
>
> Tom Breton (Tehom)
>
>
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Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2009-01-01 22:53 ` Feature request and patch - blocked TODO to say BLOCKED Tom Breton (Tehom)
2009-01-09 8:16 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-15 2:34 ` Tom Breton (Tehom)
2009-01-17 8:01 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-19 3:33 ` Advice sought on managing decision alternatives Tom Breton (Tehom)
2009-01-22 11:15 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-31 4:21 ` Tom Breton (Tehom)
2009-01-31 5:41 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-01-31 18:36 ` Tom Breton (Tehom)
2009-02-01 15:54 ` James TD Smith
2009-02-06 13:08 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-02-06 16:16 ` William Henney
2009-02-06 20:07 ` Tom Breton (Tehom)
2009-02-07 0:18 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-02-07 20:46 ` Tom Breton (Tehom)
2009-02-08 13:06 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-02-08 20:25 ` Tom Breton (Tehom)
2009-02-09 6:42 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-02-10 3:14 ` Docs submitted (Was Re: Advice sought on managing decision alternatives.) Tom Breton (Tehom)
2009-02-10 7:55 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-02-24 0:51 ` org-choose bugfix Tom Breton (Tehom)
2009-02-24 3:05 ` Manish
2009-04-07 0:13 ` Tom Breton (Tehom)
2009-04-08 13:13 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-02-24 5:51 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-02-10 8:46 ` Docs submitted (Was Re: Advice sought on managing decision alternatives.) Manish
2009-02-10 9:12 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-02-10 10:26 ` Manish
2009-02-10 22:48 ` Tom Breton (Tehom)
2009-02-12 12:50 ` Manish
2009-02-12 20:13 ` Tom Breton (Tehom)
2009-02-13 4:23 ` Manish
2009-02-12 20:55 ` Patch " Tom Breton (Tehom)
2009-02-13 4:38 ` Manish
2009-02-11 1:08 ` Tom Breton (Tehom)
2009-02-11 10:34 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-02-11 21:41 ` Tom Breton (Tehom)
2009-02-11 23:38 ` Nick Dokos
2009-02-12 4:17 ` Tom Breton (Tehom)
2009-02-11 23:44 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-02-12 4:27 ` Tom Breton (Tehom)
2009-02-12 15:49 ` Nick Dokos
2009-02-12 20:32 ` Tom Breton (Tehom)
2009-02-12 21:25 ` Nick Dokos
2009-02-11 12:29 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-02-11 14:58 ` Docs submitted Bernt Hansen
2009-02-11 17:33 ` Samuel Wales
2009-02-11 15:38 ` Docs submitted (Was Re: Advice sought on managing decision alternatives.) Daniel Clemente
2009-02-11 15:41 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-02-11 20:02 ` Tom Breton (Tehom)
2009-02-11 23:45 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2009-02-11 1:45 ` Slight fix to update-org.sh Tom Breton (Tehom)
2009-02-10 23:19 ` Docs submitted (Was Re: Advice sought on managing decision alternatives.) Tom Breton (Tehom)
2009-02-11 10:34 ` Carsten Dominik
2009-02-10 22:45 ` Tom Breton (Tehom)
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