From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: RE: Generating an unique symbol in elisp Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 14:23:27 -0800 Message-ID: <61281D0912FD40009932669C6FD300D0@us.oracle.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291415047 23957 80.91.229.12 (3 Dec 2010 22:24:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 22:24:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 'Emacs Dev' To: "'Alin Soare'" , "'Edward O'Connor'" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 03 23:24:01 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1POe2p-0003TN-Sr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:24:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:55968 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1POe2p-0002B5-5z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:23:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46860 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1POe2h-00029p-UO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:23:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1POe2h-0006E9-3m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:23:51 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet10.oracle.com ([148.87.113.121]:61884) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1POe2g-0006DP-Uw for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:23:51 -0500 Original-Received: from rcsinet15.oracle.com (rcsinet15.oracle.com [148.87.113.117]) by rcsinet10.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.2) with ESMTP id oB3MNjWw025514 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Fri, 3 Dec 2010 22:23:46 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt354.oracle.com (acsmt354.oracle.com [141.146.40.154]) by rcsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.4.2/Switch-3.4.1) with ESMTP id oB3GASp7005242; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 22:23:44 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt017.oracle.com by acsmt354.oracle.com with ESMTP id 825347711291415006; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:23:26 -0800 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/10.159.244.34) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:23:25 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 Thread-Index: AcuTNzYUO/HwVaprQKOXTWavP/lyLgAAToQQ X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5994 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:133364 Archived-At: > can you create an obarray (different of main obarr) and intern > within it only a few symbols (in this case the matter ), and > evaluate within that environment ? Yes. That's the idea behind having separate obarrays. There are no doubt examples of this in the Lisp sources. If not, here is one: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/synonyms.el.