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by MarceColl 438 days ago
to be a bit more precise, everytime you have a name in common lisp that is already a symbol. But it will get evaluated. If its as the first item of an evaluated list it will be looked at in the function name space, if elsewhere it will be looked up at the variable name space. What quote is doing is just asking the compiler not to evaluate it and treat it as data.