From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
To: "Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Thorsten <quintfall@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [babel] What is `, (backquote comma)?
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:53:20 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1109212253050.41817@freire1.furyyjbeyq.arg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87wrd1g0ix.fsf@gmail.com>
another, post-el.On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, ?t?p?n N?mec wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Sep 2011 21:05:12 +0200
> Thorsten wrote:
>
> > thanks Nick and Stepan,
> >
> > "evaluate the form after "," and quote the result"
> >
> > that made me understand what its all about.
> > I just read the backquote section Elisp manual, it does not cover these
> > strange combiniations of barely distinguable characters, but I may haved
> > missed it - its a thick book.
>
> You haven't missed anything. My point was that "the pieces are all
> there" -- as Nick pointed out by the rewriting, 'foo is just a
> convenient read syntax for (quote foo), so there's nothing special or
> new about `',foo, it's still manipulating a list structure in a way the
> manual describes.
>
> I'm sure you can find more resources on the net, as the same notation is
> used in other Lisps, in particular Common Lisp and Scheme.
>
> Two examples I know of:
> http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_df.htm
> http://bc.tech.coop/blog/041205.html
>
> (And by the way, if you really find ' and ` "barely distinguishable",
> perhaps you might consider using another font? It's an important
> distinction to make, as you've now found. ;-))
>
>
Jude <jdashiel@shellworld.net>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-22 2:53 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
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 [this message]
2011-09-21 19:48 ` Jambunathan K
2011-09-21 22:02 ` Thorsten
2011-09-22 7:10 ` peter.frings
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