Re: How the backquote and the comma really work?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> So, what about this?  It seems to work.  OTOH, I think it's not the most
> elegant thing possible, since there is some code duplication: mci/read
> has this: (:open-paren (mci/read-list-contents)) in a (a)case statement,
> and mci/read-list-contents has this: (:open-paren (setq next
> (mci/read-list-contents))).  Something tells my mathematical mind that
> there probably exists a cleaner approach.

Yes, that code duplication is no coincidence.

There's a bug with your new version btw.  "`" is handled differently at
top level and at higher levels.  If you fix that, you will probably have
even more duplicated code.


Michael.