From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: etymology of obarray Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 13:25:39 -0500 Organization: NewsGuy - Unlimited Usenet $23.95 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1400265027 11339 80.91.229.3 (16 May 2014 18:30:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 18:30:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 16 20:30:25 2014 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 1WlMtd-0005RD-OJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 20:30:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37267 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WlMtd-0003mx-75 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 May 2014 14:30:17 -0400 X-Received: by 10.236.159.39 with SMTP id r27mr8625164yhk.7.1400264786360; Fri, 16 May 2014 11:26:26 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!c1no8336814igq.0!news-out.google.com!gi6ni3318igc.0!nntp.google.com!peer02.iad.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!spln!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news3 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 11 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: pdabc7056e89404483ecd9879516c2bc1c9071dc622b04b1f.newsdawg.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120907 Thunderbird/15.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-Received-Bytes: 1075 X-Received-Body-CRC: 2237641638 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:205450 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:97718 Archived-At: > 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