From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why "symbol's value" error about a list? Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2018 05:42:10 +0200 Message-ID: <838tc579f1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83o9l6bhfs.fsf@gnu.org> <1fedc60d-35a7-4ff0-adbb-b6b8306d192f@default> <83wozu9f6r.fsf@gnu.org> <83k1vq6j1u.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517974875 2846 195.159.176.226 (7 Feb 2018 03:41:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 03:41:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 07 04:41:10 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1ejGbZ-00007Q-9i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2018 04:41:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43137 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejGda-0004iE-Nx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 22:43:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36525) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejGcq-0004hY-LR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 22:42:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejGcm-0001Qq-6M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 22:42:24 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:56673) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejGcm-0001Qk-33; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 22:42:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1946 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ejGcf-0001wC-2R; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 22:42:13 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Tue, 06 Feb 2018 21:40:50 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:222613 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > CC: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net, drew.adams@oracle.com, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 21:40:50 -0500 > > > > In that case, I wish the person who wrote that had made it clear > > > it was not a real, existing problem. > > > That person did: > > > For example, suppose you have a Lisp program that produces the > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > following error message when compiled/executed: > > Those words do NOT say that this is an unreal example. They do for me. Of course, my command of English is not perfect, so maybe I'm missing something.