David Sletten <da...@bosatsu.net> writes:

> Umm, kind of...The single quote is a macro character not a real
> macro.

And I didn't say it was a macro. It's a macro character tied to a reader
macro, and it participates in read-time macroexpansion.

,----
| user> (quote (a 'b))
| (a (quote b))
`----

[...]

> The reader silently converts 'pung to (quote pung) prior to
> evaluation, so you have to come at it in a roundabout way:

That's not conspiring; that's read-time macroexpansion working as
intended.

-- 
Steven E. Harris

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