From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Damien Wyart Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: why not "stripes" in: (let ((zebra 'stripes) ... ; strings vs symbols? Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:19:47 +0100 Organization: Serveur de News Free Message-ID: <52c172f4$0$2212$426a34cc@news.free.fr> References: <20131229142332.GA7972@boo.workgroup> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388409612 24684 80.91.229.3 (30 Dec 2013 13:20:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 13:20:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 30 14:20:20 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VxclW-000545-Gn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:20:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58312 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VxclW-0007Qp-1O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Dec 2013 08:20:18 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.fsmpi.rwth-aachen.de!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!212.27.60.64.MISMATCH!cleanfeed3-b.proxad.net!nnrp4-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.130008 (Ma Gnus v0.8) Emacs/24.3.50 Original-Lines: 15 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 30 Dec 2013 14:19:48 CET Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.41.244.197 Original-X-Trace: 1388409588 news-4.free.fr 2212 213.41.244.197:34641 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202927 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95196 Archived-At: * Thien-Thi Nguyen in gnu.emacs.help: > A string is not atomic. I don't understand, the elisp reference says that strings are atoms: http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eintr/Lisp-Atoms.html and that the only type not being an atom is the cons cell, and AFAIK, strings are not cons cells. As a quick test, evaling (atom "mystring") returns t. -- DW