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2 points by aw 5340 days ago | link | parent

I'm still wondering if `(1) expanding to '(1) is intentional or not.

A quasiquote expander can expand `(1) into '(1) or (list 1), or even (join '(1) ' nil), which is what Bawden's simple, correct, but inefficient quasiquote expander does.

The expander may choose '(1) as being more efficient than (list 1), but isn't required to do so to be a quasiquote expander.

Since it's an optimization, I wouldn't write code that relies on a particular instance of `(1) evaluating to the same list every time, that's just an accidental result of the optimization. Instead, use a plain quote for that.