From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Alin Soare <as1789@gmail.com>
Cc: Edward O'Connor <hober0@gmail.com>, Emacs Dev <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Generating an unique symbol in elisp
Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:46:05 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvy686mq6r.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimgfVrx4DgyyeQ9UWYUfezXZ3JJ+xh252nTObj+@mail.gmail.com> (Alin Soare's message of "Sat, 4 Dec 2010 00:12:26 +0200")
> Can you bind a value in variable field/ evaluate a symbol as a variable if
> it is not interned ?
Yes. The fact that it's interned or not only affects the Lisp reader,
not the interpreter.
> Otherwise, can you create an obarray (different of main obarr) and intern
> within it only a few symbols (in this case the matter ),
Yes.
> and evaluate within that environment ?
Elisp does not have such a notion, no.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-03 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-03 21:19 Generating an unique symbol in elisp Alin Soare
2010-12-03 21:30 ` Edward O'Connor
2010-12-03 21:33 ` Alin Soare
2010-12-03 22:03 ` Edward O'Connor
2010-12-03 22:12 ` Alin Soare
2010-12-03 22:23 ` Drew Adams
2010-12-03 22:38 ` Alin Soare
2010-12-03 22:46 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2010-12-03 21:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-12-03 21:44 ` Alin Soare
2010-12-03 22:34 ` Stefan Monnier
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