Re: Backquotes and commas and ",@"

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>]

Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> writes:

> This means that the gnus-sync-lesync-pre-save-group-entry function
> returns a list.

More specifically, it returns an alist of key/value pairs.

>  - Then the list will have an element that is a two element list,

It's a cons whose car is the key and cdr is the value.

>    consisting of the symbol '_id and the first element of the nentry
>    argument to the function (I don't understand why you have to have
>    the "." there, though...?)

Because you want the cdr to be the value of the key, not the cadr.

>  - Then passed props are spliced in (what happens if there is no
>    passed-props argument sent to the function?  It's optional...?)

Splicing the empty list will splice nothing.

>  - Then an element that is a two element list starting with 'level and
>    with a number(?) as the second element

Again, it is a cons, not a two element list.

Andreas.

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