On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 9:33 AM, Todd Benson <caduceass / gmail.com> wrote: > The backslash is a tool to escape the single quote inside a quote, > therefore it must escape itself as well. I should be more clear. If you have a symbol that performs a function withing a domain (the quote) and you want to have the symbol not perform that function, but just be part of the domain, you have to use that symbol (escape) on itself. whew, Todd