From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/5883 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: couple of feature requests, a question Date: 10 Apr 1996 00:07:09 +0000 Message-ID: References: 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 1035146422 1688 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:40:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:40:22 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) with SMTP id RAA05395 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 1996 17:54:49 -0700 Original-Received: from aegir.ifi.uio.no (4867@aegir.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.24]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 02:07:10 +0200 Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by aegir.ifi.uio.no ; Wed, 10 Apr 1996 02:07:10 +0200 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Jason L Tibbitts III's message of (unknown date) Original-Lines: 14 X-Mailer: September Gnus v0.69/Emacs 19.30 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5883 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:5883 Jason L Tibbitts III writes: > LMI> Isn't "#'" just Common Lispese for "'"? > > Well, the lisp reader turns "'" into "(quote ... )". In Common Lisp, "#'" > means "(function ... )". I have no idea what Emacs does with this, though. The byte compiler can handle `(function ...)' statements, while `(quote ...)'s are used verbatim. `(mapcar #'cdr list)' and `(mapcar 'cdr list)' end up as the same byte code, though. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Ingebrigtsen