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From: Dan Davison <davison@stats.ox.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Newbie elisp programmer requests a pointer to backtics...
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 11:05:31 -0400
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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,