From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thien-Thi Nguyen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs lisp - unable to write a function maker Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:40:13 +0200 Message-ID: <87litoq0zm.fsf@ambire.localdomain> References: <87pqj0q2wo.fsf@ambire.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1316166108 25251 80.91.229.12 (16 Sep 2011 09:41:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:41:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: C K Kashyap Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 16 11:41:44 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R4UvX-0001ha-HQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:41:43 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58697 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4UvX-0003al-52 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:41:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:53541) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4UvT-0003aV-4z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:41:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4UvR-0006Gp-Ty for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:41:39 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp205.alice.it ([82.57.200.101]:38400) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4UvR-0006Gd-JL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 05:41:37 -0400 Original-Received: from ambire.localdomain (79.41.65.10) by smtp205.alice.it (8.5.124.08) id 4DE6347509747FD7; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:41:34 +0200 Original-Received: from ttn by ambire.localdomain with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1R4Uu5-0001cn-OS; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 11:40:13 +0200 In-Reply-To: (C. K. Kashyap's message of "Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:56:38 +0530") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 82.57.200.101 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:82247 Archived-At: () C K Kashyap () Fri, 16 Sep 2011 14:56:38 +0530 Actually, I used eval because I noticed that if I did not, the formal parameter "name" becomes the defined function. Does this reasoning hold across reboot (Emacs exit + restart)?