From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to test if symbol from string exists?
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2021 09:20:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7dee3f42358324b05f83@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <courier.0000000060795452.00006B1D@stw1.rcdrun.com>
>
> I would like to test if symbol exists. So I am trying this:
>
> (bound-and-true-p (intern "rcd-db-people-mode-map"))
>
> and I get error:
>
> Wrong type argument: symbolp, (intern "rcd-db-people-mode-map")
>
That's because bound-and-true-p quotes its argument. You can use another
macro for that:
(defmacro bound-and-true-symbol-p (name)
"Return the value of symbol with name NAME if it is bound, else nil."
`(and (boundp (intern ,name)) (symbol-value (intern ,name))))
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-16 9:09 How to test if symbol from string exists? Jean Louis
2021-04-16 9:20 ` Gregory Heytings [this message]
2021-04-16 9:22 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-04-16 10:04 ` Jean Louis
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