On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:19:46 -0700, "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org> wrote:
> Where do I find good-enough documentation for the backtics
> prefixing the parenthesis and the commas prefixing the associative
> list values in the following code (lines of interest prefixed by
> "here->", uninteresting lines elided):

Hello,

I had the same question a few months ago. I googled something like "lisp
backquote comma" and found these links:
- http://www.psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/chapter20.html
- http://cl-cookbook.sourceforge.net/macros.html

Hope this helps :)

Regards,

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Thomas/Schnouki