[Uim] list vs ' in uim-scheme

Hiroyuki Komatsu komatsu at taiyaki.org
Tue Jun 15 08:32:00 EEST 2004


At Tue, 15 Jun 2004 13:27:38 +0900,
TOKUNAGA Hiroyuki wrote:
> > What is a difference between list and ' in uim-scheme?

>  ' is abbreviation of quote, not list. list make new list(This is a
> structure of data, not the name of procedure), and arguments of list
> will be evaluated when list called. ' means quote, quote doesn't
> evaluate it's arguments at all.

Oops, I completely confused a symbol with a valuable pointer (I don't
know the correct name of a valuable pointer), because I'm familiar
with Emacs Lisp which deals with a symbol as a kind of a pointer.

By the way, I understand.  Thanks a lot :)
Hiro





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