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Re: The symbol # in mapcat


From: Teemu Likonen
Subject: Re: The symbol # in mapcat
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 21:41:32 +0300
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.93 (gnu/linux)

Shiyuan [2014-08-24 11:27:32 -07:00] wrote:

> Anyone can explain what is the meaning of the symbol # in the
> following mapconcat call (from ob-python.el),

It's part of read syntax #' which is short-hand for special form
(function ...). That is, both of the following are the same:

    (function foo)
    #'foo

They return the function object of symbol foo.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Anonymous-Functions.html

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