On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 12:09 AM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote: > > On Apr 24, 2010, at 1:36 AM, Dancefire wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> When I translate for string >> ----- >> A list of directories (strings) indicating where to look for html and >> parsed-html files. Each element must be a string representing a >> directory or a symbol where 'default expands to the default path, and >> 'current expands to the current value of the path. >> ----- >> in src/scm/command-line.scm >> >> I first thought, it's single quote for string 'default expands to the >> default path, and '. But then, I realized it's not. It looks like a >> prefix of word "default" and "current". So, is there any special >> meaning of it? or a typo? >> > > It's a language element of Scheme indicating that the identifier is an > identifier, which in Scheme is called a "symbol". Strings in Scheme are > surrounded with double quotes: "a string". One can define a symbol to refer > to a string: (define string "a string") and would afterwards use it with the > leading single quote (print 'string). >
So, 'default and 'current are defined variable name, and I should not translate them, and should leave them as exactly 'default and 'current. Right? > Regards, > John Ralls > > -- Tao Wang _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
