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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'Kevin Rodgers'" <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>, <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: remove-hook creates a symbol if it doesn't exist
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:54:25 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <002101c933f1$7e6a7250$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gdm4a2$lo2$2@ger.gmane.org>

> > The function remove-hook creates a symbol if its HOOK arg 
> > doesn't exist as such:
> > 
> > (remove-hook 'non-existent-hook 'some-function)
> > 
> > ,-----[ C-h v non-existent-hook RET ]
> > | non-existent-hook's value is nil
> > | 
> > | Documentation:
> > | Not documented as a variable.
> > | 
> > | [back]
> > `-----
> 
> Actually, the read function interned the symbol.

`read', on its own, doesn't assign a value. It interns a name, creating a
symbol, but it doesn't give it a nil value.





  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-22  2:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-21 18:26 remove-hook creates a symbol if it doesn't exist Seb
2008-10-21 22:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-10-22  2:48 ` Kevin Rodgers
2008-10-22  2:54   ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-10-24  3:12     ` Kevin Rodgers

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