From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: `setplist' on local var escaping let binding Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:06:29 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1287652370 1881 80.91.229.12 (21 Oct 2010 09:12:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 09:12:50 +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 11:12:49 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 1P8rCR-0008KG-BF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:12:45 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57551 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P8rCN-00020x-Ny for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:12:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=59063 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1P8r6l-0006dz-LM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:06:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P8r6Y-0005CK-2W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:06:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-out.m-online.net ([212.18.0.10]:38490) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1P8r6X-0005A9-TY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 05:06:34 -0400 Original-Received: from frontend1.mail.m-online.net (unknown [192.168.8.180]) by mail-out.m-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 364291C002C9; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:06:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from hase.home (ppp-88-217-124-171.dynamic.mnet-online.de [88.217.124.171]) by mail.mnet-online.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DDE71C0033F; Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:06:29 +0200 (CEST) X-Yow: Now that we're in LOVE, you can BUY this GOLDFISH for a 48% DISCOUNT. In-Reply-To: (MON KEY's message of "Wed, 20 Oct 2010 23:02:07 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:131929 Archived-At: MON KEY writes: > What is this then: 'a-quoted-variable-but-not-a-symbol ? It is a list consisting the symbols quote and a-quoted-variable-but-not-a-symbol. > Are you saying that `setplist' is only for top-level symbols? What is a "top-level symbol"? > Doesn't quoting the variable intern? The only instances that interns symbols are the lisp reader and the function intern. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."