From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why "symbol's value" error about a list? Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 09:53:16 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83o9l6bhfs.fsf@gnu.org> <1fedc60d-35a7-4ff0-adbb-b6b8306d192f@default> <83wozu9f6r.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517928883 29721 195.159.176.226 (6 Feb 2018 14:54:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 14:54:43 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Noam Postavsky Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 06 15:54:38 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ej4dc-0006eh-MA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 15:54:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53312 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ej4fd-0001wb-VF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 09:56:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55310) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ej4ci-00086o-EY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 09:53:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ej4ch-0002E0-ED for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 09:53:28 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43559) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ej4cW-0001pY-O1; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 09:53:16 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ej4cW-00086r-6z; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 09:53:16 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Noam Postavsky on Tue, 6 Feb 2018 06:27:33 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:222576 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > For example, suppose you have a Lisp program that produces the > > > following error message when compiled/executed: > > > > > Symbol's value as variable is void: 'аbbrevs-changed > > > > Does that error message really happen? If so, how can I reproduce it? > I don't think there is a way to get this particular message (with an > ascii apostrophe and cyrillic a). So it was purely hypothetical? In that case, I wish the person who wrote that had made it clear it was not a real, existing problem. The failure to do this made us waste our time. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.