I'm not (terribly) surprised that the ability to modify literals was intentional. Thanks for that link. I'm still wondering if `(1) expanding to '(1) is intentional or not.
Clearly '(foo) is a literal and `(foo ,bar) is not a literal, right?
I guess it's not a huge stretch to say that `(foo) is a literal. Unfortunately, qq-expand doesn't always expand `(...) with no commas into '(...)
I'm still wondering if `(1) expanding to '(1) is intentional or not.
A quasiquote expander can expand `(1) into '(1) or (list 1), or even (join '(1) ' nil), which is what Bawden's simple, correct, but inefficient quasiquote expander does.
The expander may choose '(1) as being more efficient than (list 1), but isn't required to do so to be a quasiquote expander.
Since it's an optimization, I wouldn't write code that relies on a particular instance of `(1) evaluating to the same list every time, that's just an accidental result of the optimization. Instead, use a plain quote for that.
There. Just updated qq.arc, removing almost 100 lines of cruft in the process. It still passes all the old tests, and (with any luck) is much more pleasant to work with.
