On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 06:00:43AM -0500, Mark H Weaver wrote: > Hi tomás, > > <to...@tuxteam.de> wrote: > > > So the best thing for one's brain is to train it to read #(...) > > as some weird relative of '(...)? > > Yes. They are both literals, and no part of a literal is evaluated. > #(...) is actually a shorthand for '#(...) [...]
Aha. Thanks for setting my light bulb on fire :-) [...] > > Is there a corresponding weird relative of `(...)? > > Yes. Remember that #(...) is a shorthand for '#(...). You can replace > the "'" with "`", just as you would for a quasiquoted list [...] Thanks, Mark! IMO Andy and you are doing invaluable work for Guile (and Scheme in general) by making it mentally more accessible. Again, thanks. Cheers -- tomás
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