From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oleksandr Gavenko Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: :name or 'name? Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 20:26:33 +0200 Organization: Oleksandr Gavenko , http://gavenkoa.users.sf.net Message-ID: <877gn6l7dy.fsf@gavenkoa.example.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1358793503 28679 80.91.229.3 (21 Jan 2013 18:38:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:38:23 +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 Jan 21 19:38:42 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 1TxMGY-00016x-Bs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:38:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39263 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TxMGH-0004fV-8q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:38:25 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60342) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TxMG8-0004Xu-Mc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:38:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TxMG4-0007HK-Hi for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:38:16 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:32792) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TxM4z-0004Z6-At for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:26:45 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TxM5E-0003fm-7m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:27:00 +0100 Original-Received: from 37.229.4.200 ([37.229.4.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:27:00 +0100 Original-Received: from gavenkoa by 37.229.4.200 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 19:27:00 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 37.229.4.200 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Zc8JwmLGfiIouRoTYeR6IMyST20= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:88745 Archived-At: Is that usual use :name instead of 'name in elisp code (in places where you need symbol)? For example instead of defining error as: (put 'mylib-error "Unknown mylib error") (put 'mylib-error 'error-conditions '(mylib-error error)) ... (condition-case 'var BODY (mylib-error ...)) use: (put :mylib-error "Unknown mylib error") (put :mylib-error 'error-conditions '(:mylib-error error)) ... (condition-case 'var BODY (:mylib-error ...)) -- Best regards!