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From: bill@unixland.uucp (Bill Heiser)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: very elementary question (using the quote char in text)
Message-ID: <1991Feb2.181752.23438@unixland.uucp>
Date: 2 Feb 91 18:17:52 GMT
Organization: The Think_Tank BBS & Public Access Unix
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This is extremely elementary, but the book I'm using doesn't seem
to describe it, at least not in any indexed reference...

How, in Vax Common Lisp, do I use the quote (') character in something
like the following?

(cond ((< value 21) '(value's less than 21)))

Lisp prints out something like "valueQUOTEs less than 21.  I'm sure
there must be some way to escape this char. I tried \, #\, etc.  I also
tried putting "'s around the whole string, which worked, except it
caused the "'s to be printed too.

Thanks for helping a total NOVICE!

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