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 The Racket Guide 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.
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(#%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.
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