Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol

[tomas@tuxteam.de]

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On Mon, Oct 31, 2022 at 08:57:09AM +0000, Heime wrote:
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> On Monday, October 31st, 2022 at 8:42 AM, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

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> Then, how is it that (symbol-value 'seqr) returns 5?  There seems to be 
> a symbol and symbol-value returns 5.

Please: read the docs yourself. Others can't do that for you.

Specifically "12.7 Accessing Variable Values" in the Emacs Lisp
manual.

That a "symbol" has a "value" is just a shorthand notation for
"a symbol" has "a value" associated to it via a variable. It can
also have other things associated to it (a function, for example,
also a property list). But it needn't, it can just exist on its
own. 

> Yes, I have got really confused about what symbols are exactly.  Even
> after reading several times.  I have never seen anybody make a symbol,
> only variables.  So, what is a symbol?

'foo (spedifically this coaxes the reader into creating one. The
function behind that is intern. See there.

Cheers
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t

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