On Fri, Dec 9, 2016 at 7:58 AM, Bruno Franco <[email protected]> wrote: > P.S. > I'm still new to picolisp, so don't take any of what I say as gospel. And if > anyone > can confirm or expand on what I've said, I'd appreciate it a lot.
I'm not a veteran but let me expose what I once understood. > I think that, in general, you want to quote a symbol when you want to change > the value of that symbol when the function is evaluated. I think that not > every function can do this, and I think it is called "destruction." > […] > So, if you wanna change what S is using set, quote it. > If S is a list and you wanna change its innards, don't quote it. I think that, although technically probably correct, the purpose of quoting or not quoting may not be summed up like this. > Here are some functions that behave different if you quote or not their > symbol argument: > inc, dec, push, pop, set, setq Every function will behave the same, it only changes what you throw at them
