On: Show HN: Wikipedia over DNS

[onionisafruit]

I never had a lisp class, so I'm sitting here wondering why there is one single quote.

[dang → onionisafruit]

Out of curiosity, did the sibling replies to your comment (all of which are accurate!) answer your question, in the sense that you now understand?

[Symbiote → onionisafruit]

I'm glad my functional programming classes used Haskell instead:

  Hugs> reverse ["Wikipedia", "over", "DNS"]
  ["DNS","over","Wikipedia"]

[lawl → onionisafruit]

That's a reader macro to make it quoted.

What that means is 'don't try to evaluate this as a function call'.

Basically it's a data list.

[rq1 → onionisafruit]

Otherwise the single-unquoted ( would be treated as a function call.

[_emacsomancer_ → onionisafruit]

to prevent evaluation.