On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Aaron Ecay <aaronecay@gmail.com> wrote:

2012ko azaroak 18an, Ethan Glasser-Camp-ek idatzi zuen:

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> - You might want to use #' on lambdas.

This is actually unnecessary – as the info node "(elisp) Anonymous
Functions" says, the forms with and without #' are equivalent. The
current notmuch style is not to have #' on lambdas (that is, there are 0
instances of #'(lambda ...) in the code base). IMO that’s correct:
the unnecessary #' is just line-noise-ish.

OK, I think I understand. Thanks for the clarification. I found that info node very confusing.

It says that #' has effects "assuming function-object is a valid lambda expression". So why put #' on variables that are the names of functions?

In fact, outside names of functions, when are you supposed to use #' at all?

Ethan