From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org>, rswgnu@gmail.com, 44365@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44365: 27.1; intern-soft given a symbol never returns nil
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 15:27:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAArVCkSk2A3Pt8jkGc+eAMQo8jTCC+qqcnc9bRCvLpxx8agG4g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mu01b24i.fsf@gnus.org>
Am So., 1. Nov. 2020 um 15:10 Uhr schrieb Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:
>
> Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > "Return the canonical symbol named NAME, or nil if none exists.
> > NAME may be a string or a symbol. If it is a symbol, that exact
> > symbol is searched for."
> >
> > So, the doc string must need changing if your view is correct.
>
> No, it's talking about searching for a symbol in a different obarray, I
> think (the second argument to intern-soft):
>
> (intern-soft 'foo other-obarray)
>
You can also search for a symbol in the current obarray, as long as
the symbol is uninterned:
(intern-soft '#:foo)
(Not that this is very useful, searching for an uninterned symbol will
always return nil)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-11-01 14:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-11-01 5:04 bug#44365: 27.1; intern-soft given a symbol never returns nil Robert Weiner
2020-11-01 13:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-01 13:55 ` Robert Weiner
2020-11-01 14:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-01 14:27 ` Philipp Stephani [this message]
2020-11-01 14:31 ` Philipp Stephani
2020-11-01 14:20 ` Andreas Schwab
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