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From: sokobania.01@gmail.com
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Symbol properties :prop vs 'prop
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 08:33:18 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7b167aec-fcf6-4af8-817f-03611bd169a3@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k3454tqt.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com>

Le dimanche 12 octobre 2014 09:44:42 UTC+2, Pascal J. Bourguignon a écrit :
> Paul Rankin writes:
> 
> > Is there any difference between naming a symbol property as :prop vs
> > 'prop? i.e. what does the colon ":" mean?
> > (put 'my-symbol :width 45)
> > (put 'my-symbol 'width 45)
> 
> In emacs lisp, there's no difference.

You just need to be coherent of course!
ELISP> (put 'my-symbol :width 45)
45
ELISP> (get 'my-symbol :width)
45
ELISP> (get 'my-symbol 'width)
nil
ELISP> (eq 'width ':width)
nil



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-10-14 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2014-10-12  7:44 ` Symbol properties :prop vs 'prop Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-10-13 10:54   ` Paul Rankin
2014-10-14 15:33   ` sokobania.01 [this message]
2014-10-12  4:17 Paul Rankin

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