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Updated May 21, 2007 by cdiggins
Labels: Glossary, CodeExample
Quotation  
Definition of quotation.

Quotation

A quotation is a function literal. Quotations have the effect of pushing an anonymous functions on to the stack. A quotation is created by surrounding an expression using the quotation operators [ and ]. Quotations can be evaluated using the apply primitive.

For example:

>> 3
stack: 3
>> [1 +]
stack: 3 [{1} +]
>> apply
stack: 4

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