[racket] `'unquote -- error or not?

Thanks for the fast answers!
Actually I wanted to get 'unquote inside of a quasiquote; I'm now using:
`(... ,''unquote ...)
It ain't pretty but it appears to do the job! :-)

Bas


On 7/7/11 16:20 PM, Robby Findler wrote:
> FWIW, I'm right in line with this rationale.
>
> Robby
>
> On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Matthias Felleisen<matthias at ccs.neu.edu>  wrote:
>>
>> On Jul 7, 2011, at 10:01 AM, Bas Steunebrink wrote:
>>
>>> Ciao a tutti,
>>>
>>> When I type `'unquote in DrRacket, an error is thrown:
>>>
>>>> `'unquote
>>> (X) unquote: expects exactly one expression in: (unquote)
>>>
>>> I understand why this error occurs from the way quasiquote is expanded; see e.g. http://community.schemewiki.org/?scheme-faq-language#qqmacro (I guess DrRacket works similarly). Still, I feel the result should be just 'unquote. What do you think?
>>
>> No, your use of backquote explicitly calls for a search for unquote.
>>
>> If you want the symbol unquote inside of an unquote, you first need to unquote:
>>
>>> `,'unquote
>> unquote
>>
>> (as in comma = unquote).
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