From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/39700 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: new Mail-Followup-To patch...please take a look... Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 08:28:30 +0200 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=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035175370 29357 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:42:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:42:50 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 25182 invoked from network); 26 Oct 2001 06:29:39 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 26 Oct 2001 06:29:39 -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 15x0UZ-00063y-00; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 01:29:19 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 26 Oct 2001 01:28:58 -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 BAA20092 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 01:28:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (qmail 25170 invoked by alias); 26 Oct 2001 06:29:02 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 25165 invoked from network); 26 Oct 2001 06:29:02 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 26 Oct 2001 06:29:02 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id f9Q6SZG05390 for ; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 08:28:35 +0200 (MES) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id IAA22256; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 08:28:30 +0200 (MET DST) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id 44BC12019; Fri, 26 Oct 2001 08:28:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87d73evv3k.fsf@hal.Olympus.INVALID> ("Davide G. M. Salvetti"'s message of "Wed, 24 Oct 2001 00:40:15 +0200") Original-Lines: 14 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39700 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:39700 "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. kai -- Lisp is kinda like tpircstsoP