From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `setplist' on local var escaping let binding Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:26:05 +0900 Message-ID: <87hbggkw82.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287636227 28383 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2010 04:43:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 04:43:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: MON KEY Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 21 06:43:46 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1P8n0C-0001kG-U9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 06:43:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45213 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P8n0C-0007Oe-CH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:43:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=60314 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P8mzF-00074v-0D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:42:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P8mzD-00074r-D4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:42:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [130.158.254.171] (port=48279 helo=dmail02.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P8mzD-00074j-2w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:42:43 -0400 Original-Received: from imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (unknown [130.158.254.130]) by dmail02.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9808A86E258 for ; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:24:21 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp [127.0.0.1]) by postfix.imss71 (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CDDC2AF543; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:24:14 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (unknown [130.158.97.223]) by imss12.cc.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C2A52AF542; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:24:14 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mgmt1.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17FD83FA04E1; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:24:14 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0FEBF1A3C36; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:26:06 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.1.93a under 21.5 (beta29) "garbanzo" ed3b274cc037 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:131926 Archived-At: MON KEY writes: > What is this then: 'a-quoted-variable-but-not-a-symbol ? > Are you saying that `setplist' is only for top-level symbols? > Doesn't quoting the variable intern? Sure, as you demonstrated. But you're asking the wrong question. The question is "where does `let' intern?" (I take no position on what behavior is correct, except to note that XEmacs behaves the way GNU Emacs does, FWIW YMMV.)