From: Cecil Westerhof <Cecil@decebal.nl>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Creating a list
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:13:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873a4afyi0.fsf@Traian.DecebalComp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 874ooqkah6.fsf@lola.goethe.zz
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>>>> At the moment I create a list with:
>>>> (setq ret-val (cons total-amount (cons current-amount ())))
>>>> I thought about doing it with:
>>>> (setq ret-val (cons total-amount '(current-amount)))
>>>>
>>>> But then the second value is the string current-amount
>>>
>>> Wrong. The _symbol_ current-amount.
>>
>> When evaluating I got:
>> (1570378.2570192777 current-amount)
>> That is why I thought I got the string.
>
> A string would have quote marks around it.
Off course.
But I have a few questions on my mind.
- Why is the first shown as value and the second as _symbol_?
- current-amount is a local variable. How is it possible that the symbol
is still defined?
--
Cecil Westerhof
Senior Software Engineer
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/cecilwesterhof
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-19 13:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-19 7:38 Creating a list Cecil Westerhof
2009-11-19 8:35 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-19 10:59 ` Cecil Westerhof
2009-11-19 11:41 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-19 13:13 ` Cecil Westerhof [this message]
2009-11-19 13:47 ` Barry Margolin
2009-11-19 15:11 ` Cecil Westerhof
2009-11-19 19:26 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-19 13:57 ` David Kastrup
2009-11-19 15:14 ` Cecil Westerhof
2009-11-19 13:59 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-11-19 11:59 ` Gnus: Some new mails are automatically marked as 'O' Wang Lei
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