[plt-scheme] Why isn't the car of a list of symbols a symbol?

From: Brent Saunders (bsaunders at otxresearch.com)
Date: Thu Jul 9 15:30:37 EDT 2009

This doesn't make sense.

> (define foo '('yes 'no))
> (symbol? (first foo))
#f

However,

> (define foo `(,'yes ,'no))
> (symbol? (first foo))
True




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