Since (list 1 2 3) yields (1 2 3) and (quote (1 2 3)) yields (1 2 3), what is the rationale for having both?
Since Scheme is otherwise so spare, these must have some meaningful difference. What is that?
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Since (list 1 2 3) yields (1 2 3) and (quote (1 2 3)) yields (1 2 3), what is the rationale for having both?
Since Scheme is otherwise so spare, these must have some meaningful difference. What is that?
In the example you mentioned
quoteandlisthave the same result because numeric constants evaluate to themselves. If you use expressions that are not self-evaluating in the list (say variables or function calls), you’ll see the difference:(quote (a b c))will give you a list that contains the symbolsa,bandcwhile(list a b c)will give you a list containing the values of the variablesa,bandc(or an error if the variables do not exist).