quot & 'sym

[ghost]

I didn't understand the differencies of these (quot & 'sym). What are the differencies of them?

[h3rald]

Well...

• in case of a quote:
  • evaluates a
  • evaluates quot (so quotes the value of a)
• in case of 'a:
  • evaluates "a"
  • evaluates ' --> quote
  • err ok, you win, 😬 I just checked that in this case it creates a symbol using "a"

Theoretically, 'a should be equal to ("a") actually, but it would also be pretty useless. Instead, ' is extremely important in min, in its current implementation!

I should however clarify this. The easiest way to fix this inconsistency would be to create a new symbol quotesym that takes a string and converts it into a quoted symbol, and then say that the ' sigil is equivalent to that... 😜

Unfortunately there's also a symbol ' (not sigil!) which is also currently the equivalent for quote. 🙄

[ghost]

The easiest way to fix this inconsistency would be to create a new symbol quotesym

Okay, looks fine. This may does better.

Unfortunately there's also a symbol ' (not sigil!)

Looks like i didn't understand again. It must be a sigil. Isn't ' a sigil?
The min website says also that is a sigil.

You may give different symbols for them instead of giving ' to all them.

[h3rald]

There's a ' sigil and a ' symbol... but the problem right now is that the sigil behaves a little differently, as you noticed.

From next version, ' will be an alias for the new quotesym symbol and a sigil that will behave in the same way.