From: "B. T. Raven" <btraven@nihilo.net>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: etymology of obarray
Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 13:25:39 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ll5l7g016id@news3.newsguy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1490.1400258061.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Where does the word obarray originate? What is "ob"?
>
I think it's 'object', i.e. anything that (type-of) returns. E.g.
(type-of 'type-of) returns > symbol, (type-of 1) returns > integer, etc.
There is or was also an oblist, which includes the same kind of info in
a list rather than a vector.
Ed
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2014-05-16 17:57 ` etymology of obarray Emanuel Berg
2014-05-16 18:41 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-05-16 18:25 ` B. T. Raven [this message]
2014-05-16 18:46 ` Emanuel Berg
2014-05-16 16:33 Joe Riel
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