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From: Thorsten Jolitz <tjolitz@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: intern vs. make-symbol
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 02:42:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87haljk4mf.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvr4knzldz.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.help@gnu.org

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> give the same results - and why isn't this so?
>
> Because the implicit "interning" is done while `read'ing the code
> (i.e. while turning the text into a sexp), not while `eval'ing the code
> (which takes a sexp and runs it).

Thanks Tom and Stefan, I think its this implicit "interning" that I
somehow expected to happen when quoting the result of 'make-symbol. 

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten




  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-11  1:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-10 19:42 intern vs. make-symbol Thorsten Jolitz
2013-02-11  1:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-02-11  1:42   ` Thorsten Jolitz [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.19532.1360525339.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-02-10 20:46 ` tom.capey

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