From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: obarray Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 02:56:57 +0100 Message-ID: <87lhzmc1w6.fsf@web.de> References: <87haabq6gl.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87bo0irj13.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1387072657 10830 80.91.229.3 (15 Dec 2013 01:57:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 01:57:37 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 15 02:57:38 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 1Vs0xd-0003AW-7j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 02:57:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49150 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vs0xc-00045m-Qt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 20:57:36 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35096) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vs0xM-00043p-IC for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 20:57:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vs0xF-0001YW-8m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 20:57:20 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:43860) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vs0xF-0001WK-1S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 14 Dec 2013 20:57:13 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vs0xC-0002z4-NM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 02:57:10 +0100 Original-Received: from ip-90-186-77-134.web.vodafone.de ([90.186.77.134]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 02:57:10 +0100 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-186-77-134.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 02:57:10 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 19 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-186-77-134.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:1Z3Gt4shHf8T6vZSD4c9H0PMSvc= 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:94997 Archived-At: Hi, > So it is a hash table of symbols: variables, constants, > :keywords, functions, ...? > > And when you do `defvar', is the symbol name inserted > into this data structure based on some property - > perhaps the name itself, or type (if a "symbol" isn't > atomic)? > > Is the value inserted as well or do they use some sort > of pointer scheme? That's all described very well in (info "(elisp) Creating Symbols") Michael.