Re: problem getting hooks to be active

[Barry Margolin]

In article <87ptjc3x6r.fsf@lorien.concordia.ca>,
Peter Solodov  <peter@alcor.concordia.ca> wrote:
>On 11 Aug 2003, Eric Pement wrote:
>>    (add-hook 'sgml-mode-hook'
>
>That second quote is really there???  In this case you're adding to
>"sgml-mode-hook'", and not sgml-mode-hook.

No he isn't.  Lisp has no provisions for turning single-quotes into
double-quotes.  What he wrote is actually equivalent to:

(add-hook 'sgml-mode-hook
  '(lambda ...))

because Lisp doesn't care about the presence or absence of whitespace
before or after quotes.

But I agree that his layout suggests a serious misunderstanding of how Lisp
quoting works.

>(add-hook 'sgml-mode-hook
>  (lambda ()
>    ...

That should work the same as his version, because (lambda ...) is a macro
invocation that expands into '(lambda ...).

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