From: TheFlyingDutchman <zzbbaadd@aol.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: variable's documentation string
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:30:16 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <68272c76-65d8-4c1b-9e97-955c55c9e1a8@g23g2000vbr.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1557.1246352126.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> That's not the way Lisp works. When the form 'some_variable was read,
> the symbol was created (with a void value, void function, and nil
> property list).
>
> If you evaluate (symbol-value 'some_variable) or (symbol-function
> 'some_variable), you'll get an error. But not (symbol-plist
> 'some_variable).
>
Thanks Kevin. That certainly is "interesting" behavior. Not what I
would prefer. Is there a way to test that a symbols value and function
are void without getting an error?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-30 20:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-29 7:24 variable's documentation string TheFlyingDutchman
2009-06-29 7:25 ` TheFlyingDutchman
2009-06-29 9:24 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-06-29 22:47 ` TheFlyingDutchman
2009-06-30 6:22 ` Kevin Rodgers
2009-06-30 8:47 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2009-06-30 20:33 ` TheFlyingDutchman
2009-06-30 21:37 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
[not found] ` <mailman.1557.1246352126.2239.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2009-06-30 20:30 ` TheFlyingDutchman [this message]
2009-06-30 20:44 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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