+;; backquote.el --- backquoting for Emacs Lisp macros
+
+;; Author: Dick King (king@kestrel).
+;; Last-Modified: 16 Mar 1992
+;; Keywords: extensions
+
;; Copyright (C) 1985 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
-;; Written by Dick King (king@kestrel).
;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
;; GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 1, or (at your option)
+;; the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
;; any later version.
;; GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
;; along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to
;; the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
+;;; Commentary:
-;;; This is a rudimentry backquote package written by D. King,
+ ;;; This is a rudimentry backquote package written by D. King,
;;; king@kestrel, on 8/31/85. (` x) is a macro
;;; that expands to a form that produces x. (` (a b ..)) is
;;; a macro that expands into a form that produces a list of what a b
;;; This is so crunchy that I am considering including a check for
;;; this or changing the syntax to ... ,(<form>). RMS: opinion?
+;;; Code:
;;; a raft of general-purpose macros follows. See the nearest
;;; Commonlisp manual.
(provide 'backquote)
+;;; backquote.el ends here