Re: JESS: Lisp quote() an ' function
"Ernest Friedman-Hill" <[email protected]>
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In many forms of Lisp, an unadorned symbol is taken to be a variable; (quote) lets it evaluate to itself. In the CLIPS language used by Jess, variables always have a wart of some kind (? or $?) and so a plain symbol is unambigiously just a symbol. On Nov 21, 2010, at 3:59 AM, Donald Winston wrote: > Some things are coming back to me from my college AI class several > years ago when we dabbled in Lisp (on a mainframe). I remember > having to use the quote function frequently. I believe an apostrophe > was syntatic sugaring for the same thing. How come this not > necessary in Jess? > > Donald Paul Winston > [email protected] > > > --------------------------------------------------------- Ernest Friedman-Hill Informatics & Decision Sciences, Sandia National Laboratories PO Box 969, MS 9012, Livermore, CA 94550 http://www.jessrules.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [email protected]' in the BODY of a message to [email protected], NOT to the list (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [email protected]. --------------------------------------------------------------------