Re: How the backquote and the comma really work?

[Robert Thorpe]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

> Here is the expression the reader generates for "`',foo":
>
>   (read "`',foo") ==> (\` (quote (\, foo)))
>
> (be sure to eval with print-quoted nil, the default).

In some cases the commands "macroexpand" and "macroexpand-all" can be
useful for finding out what complicated types of quoting do.

BR,
Robert Thorpe