quote – Row Coding

HTML5 block-quote with author

by Tarik

I googled about this and it looks like <figure> and <figcaption> should do the job: <figure> <blockquote cite=”https://developer.mozilla.org/samples/html/figure.html”> Quotes, parts of poems can also be a part of figure. </blockquote> <figcaption>MDN editors</figcaption> </figure> https://developer.mozilla.org/samples/html/figure.html <figure> <blockquote cite=”http://www.w3.org/html/wg/drafts/html/master/grouping-content.html#the-figure-element”> The figure element represents some flow content, optionally with a caption, that is self-contained and is typically referenced …

What is the difference between quote and list?

by Tarik

TL;DR: They are different; use list when in doubt. A rule of thumb: use list whenever you want the arguments to be evaluated; quote “distributes” over its arguments, so ‘(+ 1 2) is like (list ‘+ ‘1 ‘2). You’ll end up with a symbol in your list, not a function. An in-depth look at list …

What is ‘ (apostrophe) in Lisp / Scheme?

by Tarik

The form ‘foo is simply a faster way to type the special form (quote foo) which is to say, “do not evaluate the name foo replacing it with its value; I really mean the name foo itself”. I think SISC is perfectly fine for exploring the exercises in TLS.

How to escape single quote in sed?

by Tarik

Quote sed codes with double quotes: $ sed “s/ones/one’s/”<<<“ones thing” one’s thing I don’t like escaping codes with hundreds of backslashes – hurts my eyes. Usually I do in this way: $ sed ‘s/ones/one\x27s/'<<<“ones thing” one’s thing

When to use ‘ (or quote) in Lisp?

by Tarik

Short answer Bypass the default evaluation rules and do not evaluate the expression (symbol or s-exp), passing it along to the function exactly as typed. Long Answer: The Default Evaluation Rule When a regular (I’ll come to that later) function is invoked, all arguments passed to it are evaluated. This means you can write this: …