From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39707 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Fishman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: new Mail-Followup-To patch...please take a look... Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 21:19:14 -0400 Organization: Home System Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87wv1m9y6j.fsf@mclinux.com> <87d73evv3k.fsf@hal.Olympus.INVALID> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175375 29397 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:42:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:42:55 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 20489 invoked from network); 27 Oct 2001 01:23:42 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 27 Oct 2001 01:23:42 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 15xI8y-00006Q-00; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 20:20:12 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 26 Oct 2001 20:19:49 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id UAA23758 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 20:19:38 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 20419 invoked by alias); 27 Oct 2001 01:19:42 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 20413 invoked from network); 27 Oct 2001 01:19:38 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 27 Oct 2001 01:19:38 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15xIFi-00079F-00 for ; Sat, 27 Oct 2001 03:27:10 +0200 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.78.19.83 Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1004146028 27480 12.78.19.83 (27 Oct 2001 01:27:08 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Oct 2001 01:27:08 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39707 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39707 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > "Davide G. M. Salvetti" writes: > >> Ok for '(lambda). But what's the point in writing #'(lambda ...) if >> (lambda ...) already evaluates to it (being lambda a macro)? Is that >> some kind of stylistic convention, or there is really something more? > > I think that (lambda ...) doesn't work in CL; you have to use > #'(lambda ...) there. It seems that some Emacs Lisp programmers > prefer to use CL-like notation. Maybe they want to support the CLErik > Conspiracy. According to the CL hyperspec: (lambda lambda-list [[declaration* | documentation]] form*) == (function (lambda lambda-list [[declaration* | documentation]] form*)) == #'(lambda lambda-list [[declaration* | documentation]] form*) And the #' didn't seem to be needed in any of the CL systems I tried. However, Guy Steele's "Common Lisp, The Language Second Edition", Section 5.2 states quite explicitly the opposite. I guess its more recent than 1990, probably introduced by scheme people who infiltrated an ANSI draft review by posing as MIT janitors. Barry Fishman