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Re: How the backquote and the comma really work?


From: Michael Heerdegen
Subject: Re: How the backquote and the comma really work?
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 21:06:00 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> Wow.  There seems to be nothing in either manual (the Emacs one and the
> Elisp one) about reader macros.

Yip, because this can't be defined or controlled from Lisp at all, so
there is not much to describe.  The few hardcoded reader macros that
exist are explained individually in the manual (though the term "reader
macro" may not even be used).  Reader macros are common in Common Lisp,
in Emacs Lisp, the few that exist are more a special aspect of syntax,
not even worth to name them specially.


Michael.




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