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#%datum

2.3 Literals: quote and #%datum

Many forms are implicitly quoted (via #%datum) as literals. See Expansion Steps for more information.

+Quoting: quote and in Guide: Racket introduces quote.

(quote datum)
Produces a constant value corresponding to datum (i.e., the representation of the program fragment) without its lexical information, source location, etc. Quoted pairs, vectors, and boxes are immutable.

Examples:

  > (quote x)

  'x

  > (quote (+ 1 2))

  '(+ 1 2)

  > (+ 1 2)

  3

(#%datum . datum)
Expands to (quote datum), as long as datum is not a keyword. If datum is a keyword, a syntax error is reported.

See also Expansion Steps for information on how the expander introduces #%datum identifiers.

Examples:

  > (#%datum . 10)

  10

  > (#%datum . x)

  'x

  > (#%datum . #:x)

  eval:471:0: #%datum: keyword used as an expression in: #:x