LOGO-L> Re: what is logo useful for anyways?

[KERRB@Magill.UniSA.edu.au]

Wen wrote:-
>Just a question about the uses of " and : before a Logo variable.
>In LISP, we use quote or not quote to decide whether we just use
>a symbol literally or to evaluate it. How come in Logo, we use
>two special characters, double quote  and colon, to distinguish
>these two?  We only have a comparatively small benefit of that,
>for example, we can use FD, as a variable name.

: is an abbreviation for thing "variableName

Example:

make "age 10
show thing "age
10
show :age
10


-- Bill Kerr
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