Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol

[Emanuel Berg]

Michael Heerdegen wrote:

>> because `quote' does not evaluate anything, not even
>> itself
>
> I'm not so happy with this sentence, however. Not sure what
> you intended to say.

If you evaluate `quote' you get the argument but it isn't
evaluated, and this doesn't change if the argument is
another quote.

              (+ 1 2 3)   ; 6
       (quote (+ 1 2 3))  ; not evaluated into 6, instead it's a list
(quote (quote (+ 1 2 3))) ; now it's a list with quote as the first element

And so on.

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