From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Why I cannot use this variable in macro call from function? Date: Tue, 8 Jun 2021 20:14:08 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="22805"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.7+183 (3d24855) (2021-05-28) Cc: Help GNU Emacs To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 08 19:18:24 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lqfMu-0005gT-B1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 08 Jun 2021 19:18:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49050 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lqfMt-0000CL-DO for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 08 Jun 2021 13:18:23 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43896) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lqfKo-0007HT-U8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jun 2021 13:16:20 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:59687) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lqfKm-0003uc-Kc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jun 2021 13:16:14 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:197.157.0.23]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000AE2EE.0000000060BFA5DA.00007B1A; Tue, 08 Jun 2021 10:16:09 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Drew Adams , Help GNU Emacs Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -3 X-Spam_score: -0.4 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_SORBS_WEB=1.5, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:130634 Archived-At: Major problem is that this does not behave how I expect it to behave: (defvar (intern "my-function-123") nil) (type-of 'my-function-123) ⇒ symbol NOT WORKING: (defvar 'my-function-123 nil) (defvar (intern "my-function-123") nil): Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument symbolp (intern "my-function-123")) boundp((intern "my-function-123")) elisp--eval-defun-1((defvar (intern "my-function-123") nil)) elisp--eval-last-sexp(nil) eval-last-sexp(nil) funcall-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil) call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil) command-execute(eval-last-sexp) Though it says that after `defvar' should come SYMBOL defvar is a special form in ‘src/eval.c’. (defvar SYMBOL &optional INITVALUE DOCSTRING) Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 1.5. Define SYMBOL as a variable, and return SYMBOL. -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/