> The quote operator cannot be used for writing control structures in Lisp I'm not sure this is what they had in mind, but I've actually done pretty much this

> The quote operator cannot be used for writing control structures in Lisp I'm not sure this is what they had in mind, but I've actually done pretty much this when bootstrapping. Eg: (def (do-if cond) # actually a built-in, but defined this way (if cond id quote)) ((do-if tee) (foo)) # (id (foo)) ((do-if nil) (bar)) # (quote (bar))