[plt-scheme] quote vs. #%datum

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Sun May 16 09:42:39 EDT 2004

At Sat, 8 May 2004 16:56:15 -0400, Doug Orleans wrote:
> Is there any difference between `quote' and `#%datum' other than the
> fact that `#%datum' represents a syntactic literal?

There's no difference in fully expanded code. The distinction just
gives you a way to control implicit quoting.

Matthew



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