From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: eval trouble Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:45:36 +0200 Message-ID: <48B2EFC0.8060606@gmail.com> References: <48B2E455.4060600@gmail.com> <87ej4dt2g8.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219686385 7527 80.91.229.12 (25 Aug 2008 17:46:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:46:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Pascal J. Bourguignon" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 25 19:47:18 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KXg9n-0004CA-8f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:47:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35294 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KXg8p-0004Eh-8M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:46:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KXg8Q-0004E6-EG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:45:46 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KXg8O-0004DQ-N7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:45:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35871 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KXg8O-0004DK-FG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:45:44 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.149.213]:52444) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KXg8N-0004YU-L9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 13:45:44 -0400 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-176.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.176]:62499 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KXg8K-0005ZA-8R; Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:45:40 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: <87ej4dt2g8.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080825-0, 2008-08-25), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.176 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KXg8K-0005ZA-8R. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp02.sth.basefarm.net 1KXg8K-0005ZA-8R cd195f21199902b52cb9aea3851aab94 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56966 Archived-At: Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote: > "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" writes: >>> Here is the code that does NOT work: >>> >>> (defun mumamo-define-no-mode (mode-sym) >>> (let ((mumamo-repl4 (make-symbol (format "mumamo-repl4-%s" mode-sym))) >> It works if I replace make-symbol with intern. But why does eval care >> about that? > > eval doesn't care, but how would you be able to refer again to the > defined thing if you don't have its name in some dictionary? Thanks. I see. I thought eval interned the symbol, or perhaps rather created an interned symbol. In this case it does not do that. Or am I still misunderstanding something.