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From: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
To: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Newbie elisp programmer requests a pointer to backtics...
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:05:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tyre5b2c.fsf@stats.ox.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k4saz786.fsf@schnouki.net> (Thomas Jost's message of "Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:58:01 +0200")

Thomas Jost <schnouki@schnouki.net> writes:

> 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

And for a scarily in-depth tutorial on lisp evaluation and macros (most
of which afaIaw translates fairly directly to elisp)

http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html

(I have a long way to go with that one...)

Dan

>
> Hope this helps :)
>
> Regards,

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-14 15:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-14  0:19 Newbie elisp programmer requests a pointer to backtics Russell L. Carter
2010-04-14  9:52 ` David Maus
2010-04-14 16:13   ` Russell L. Carter
2010-04-14  9:58 ` Thomas Jost
2010-04-14 15:05   ` Dan Davison [this message]
2010-04-14 16:31     ` Russell L. Carter
2010-04-14 13:35 ` John Wiegley

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