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Subject: RE: Help with select-elements function
From: "Pawson, David" <DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 3 Apr 1998 07:51:52 +0100

> 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?
> 
'(item item item) is equivalent to
 (quote (item item item))

Anything in double quotes is taken as a string literal.
The brackets then don't form a list, simply are chars 
inside the string.

DaveP


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