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Re: Weird behavior of hash-table
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tomas |
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Re: Weird behavior of hash-table |
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Sun, 24 Nov 2019 12:23:59 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 06:00:43AM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Hi tomás,
>
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > So the best thing for one's brain is to train it to read #(...)
> > as some weird relative of '(...)?
>
> Yes. They are both literals, and no part of a literal is evaluated.
> #(...) is actually a shorthand for '#(...) [...]
Aha. Thanks for setting my light bulb on fire :-)
[...]
> > Is there a corresponding weird relative of `(...)?
>
> Yes. Remember that #(...) is a shorthand for '#(...). You can replace
> the "'" with "`", just as you would for a quasiquoted list [...]
Thanks, Mark!
IMO Andy and you are doing invaluable work for Guile (and Scheme in
general) by making it mentally more accessible. Again, thanks.
Cheers
-- tomás
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