From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Applying intern-soft to a symbol Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 01:20:04 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87fugxkfns.fsf@gmail.com> <87shkwb6zo.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1493162453 11009 195.159.176.226 (25 Apr 2017 23:20:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 23:20:53 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Apr 26 01:20:49 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d39lH-0002hw-HK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 01:20:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51860 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d39lN-0001pt-9y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2017 19:20:53 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48377) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d39ko-0001pd-G9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2017 19:20:19 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d39kj-0001Cy-L9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2017 19:20:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=41313 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d39kj-0001CS-Ea for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Apr 2017 19:20:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d39ka-0001oM-W0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Apr 2017 01:20:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:w20foDLsJZuUPPTMndSkOv+Y2Ys= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112886 Archived-At: N. Raghavendra wrote: > I didn't understand that interning was done > by the reader, though this is clearly > mentioned in the manual: `If the obarray does > not contain a symbol with that name, the > reader makes a new symbol and adds it to the > obarray. Finding or adding a symbol with > a certain name is called “interning” it, and > the symbol is then called an “interned > symbol”.' Ha ha ha! Any questions? :) -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573