From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Weird error message "wrong-type-argument symbolp (quote foo)"
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:18:50 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxe8xowo.fsf@iki.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87k53kxp6i.fsf@iki.fi
On 2009-06-10 12:12 (UTC), Teemu Likonen wrote:
> Actually only in your first, broken example "symbolp" and "symbol-value"
> get a list like "(quote foo)" as argument and thus they complain. In
> your latter examples they get symbol "foo" as argument. The reason is
> the double quoting.
I meant "the reason [for this difference] is the [previously mentioned]
double quoting".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-10 12:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-10 11:45 Weird error message "wrong-type-argument symbolp (quote foo)" florian
2009-06-10 12:12 ` Teemu Likonen
2009-06-10 12:18 ` Teemu Likonen [this message]
2009-06-12 19:46 ` florian
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