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: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:59:25 +0200 Message-ID: <83k1vq6j1u.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83o9l6bhfs.fsf@gnu.org> <1fedc60d-35a7-4ff0-adbb-b6b8306d192f@default> <83wozu9f6r.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii 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 1517944041 12431 195.159.176.226 (6 Feb 2018 19:07:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 19:07:21 +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 Tue Feb 06 20:07:16 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 1ej8a2-0001qu-0k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:06:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52168 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ej8c3-0000Gf-As for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 14:09:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39502) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ej8T0-000284-Bq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 13:59:43 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ej8Sx-0005bn-8t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 13:59:42 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:48881) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ej8Sx-0005bc-59; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 13:59:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1365 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ej8So-0004RK-QD; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 13:59:31 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Tue, 06 Feb 2018 09:53:16 -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:222582 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > CC: eliz@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 09:53:16 -0500 > > > I don't think there is a way to get this particular message (with an > > ascii apostrophe and cyrillic a). > > So it was purely hypothetical? > > 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: Symbol's value as variable is void: 'аbbrevs-changed