Hello [EMAIL PROTECTED]!
On 24-Nov-99, you wrote:
i> So the difference results from how 'form handles words with or
i> w/o parens. Apparently, when form finds the literal word
i> 'service it simply embeds the word in quotation marks. In
i> contrast form apparently dereferences a word if that word is
i> surrounded by parentheses.
That behaviour is not due to form:
>> word: "meaning"
== "meaning"
>> var1: 'word
== word
>> var2: make paren! [word]
== (word)
>> var1
== word
>> var2
== "meaning"
>> form var1
== "word"
>> form var2
== "meaning"
>> form :var2
== "word"
Regards,
Gabriele.
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