On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 08:49:10AM +0100, Alexander Burger wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 10:25 PM, Erik Gustafson < > Thanks Erik for the great explanation and the article!
I feel I should also mention that the purpose of (setq A 'value) versus (set 'A 'value) is not at all to avoid some typing. In fact, the overall numbers of characters is the same ;) It is the *function* call overhead, which is relatively expensive. As you know, the quote character is a read macro, so that (set 'A 'value) expands to (set (quote . A) (quote . value)) immediately when the expression is read. The evaluation of the arguments to 'set' thus triggers the analysis of the expression (quote . A) followed by the 'quote' call. - Alex -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
