From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: MON KEY <monkey@sandpframing.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: symbol equality --cl-rest-- help-function-arglist member vs member* and also equal, eql, and eq
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 11:32:11 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871vinspqs.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d2afcfda0912211716v41d993c4hb8fb16b0fee97a30@mail.gmail.com>
MON KEY writes:
> Why do symbol equality tests/comparisons with --cl-rest-- and
> `help-function-arglist' be so freaky?
Apparently --cl-rest-- is an uninterned symbol. This is done so that
the symbol cannot shadow an definition in code outside the cl-arglist
processing module.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-22 2:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-12-22 1:16 symbol equality --cl-rest-- help-function-arglist member vs member* and also equal, eql, and eq MON KEY
2009-12-22 2:22 ` Miles Bader
2009-12-22 23:57 ` MON KEY
2009-12-23 8:59 ` David Kastrup
2009-12-22 2:32 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
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