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From: kend@tekchips.LABS.TEK.COM (Ken Dickey)
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Subject: Re: why is quasiquote necessary?
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Date: 31 May 90 00:59:40 GMT
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In article <ALMS.90May30153205@brazil.cambridge.apple.com> alms@cambridge.apple.com (Andrew L. M. Shalit) writes:
>
>It occurred to me today that Scheme doesn't really need a quasiquote
>special form.  Instead, quote could have just been extended to handle
>unquote and unquote-splicing.

Quoted data is constant [e.g. EPROMable].  My recollection is that
quasi-quoted forms may expand into something not quite constant.
I can't immediately think of a good example [nested quasi-quotes?]
{JAR, are you out there?}.

-Ken Dickey			kend@mrloog.WR.TEK.COM