From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: About `autoload-do-load' Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:46:24 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1357660015 27762 80.91.229.3 (8 Jan 2013 15:46:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 15:46:55 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 08 16:47:13 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 1TsbOP-0005Ea-Sr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:47:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52546 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsbOA-00028j-Bz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:46:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:49679) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsbO3-00028c-Vj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:46:50 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsbO2-0000Yq-TQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:46:47 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:53351) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsbO2-0000Yg-N3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 10:46:46 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TsbOC-0004vY-57 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:46:56 +0100 Original-Received: from 69-196-140-221.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.196.140.221]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:46:56 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-196-140-221.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 16:46:56 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 8 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-196-140-221.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ceh4qiDiDi3XkkTKo8CLOxPm8TI= 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:88523 Archived-At: > Yes, function value and function cell are equivalent in this context. Not quite: a "cell" is a place somewhere in memory that can contain a value. So the "function cell" of a symbol *holds* (as opposed to "is") a "function value". Stefan