Re: Help with select-elements function

Subject: Re: Help with select-elements function
From: "W. Eliot Kimber" <eliot@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 02 Apr 1998 12:58:46 -0600
At 01:35 PM 4/2/98 -0500, Tony Graham wrote:
>I had a similar problem, which I got around by explicitly using
>"list":
>
>  (select-elements
>   (children
>    (ancestor "TGROUP" (current-node)))
>   (list "COLSPEC"
>    (list "COLNAME" nameend)))

Thanks: going from '( "a" ("name" value)) to (list "a" ("name" value))
fixed it.

I thought "'()" was simply a shorthand for (list). I guess it means more
than that?

Cheers,

E.
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