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bug#25462: Out of date doc string for "`".
From: |
Noam Postavsky |
Subject: |
bug#25462: Out of date doc string for "`". |
Date: |
Wed, 18 Jan 2017 17:14:10 -0500 |
On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 3:55 PM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> wrote:
>
>> Note that `\\=`' is any ordinary Lisp symbol and thus may be treated
>> as data or given different meanings in particular contexts. For
>> instance, it has a special meaning inside `pcase' patterns.
>
> I think that's objectively wrong.
It's correct.
> "`" isn't an ordinary Lisp symbol,
> it's a reader macro which is handled in the reader.
It's both. "`" is a reader macro which expands into a list starting
with the ordinary Lisp symbol named "`".
(equal (car (read-from-string "`a"))
(list (intern "`") 'a)) ;=> t