From: Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: when you gotta have a variable value for a symbol name
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 00:22:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8738dqo0rh.fsf@debian.uxu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5972.1406239064.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Robert Thorpe <rt@robertthorpeconsulting.com> writes:
> An uninterned symbol is one that sits by itself, it
> has the same parts as usual: string, function entry,
> variable entry and plist, but it's not attached to an
> obarray.
Do you use uninterned symbols in macros so they won't
collide once expanded or what is the reason not to put
symbols in the obarray?
--
underground experts united
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