From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
To: "Gerd Möllmann" <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com>
Cc: 58338-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#58338: 29.0.50; mapatoms called on more elements than in obarray?
Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2022 18:51:43 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mta8lr9c.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4dd5f196-0d36-b232-7c02-24a27230753e@gmail.com> ("Gerd Möllmann"'s message of "Thu, 6 Oct 2022 20:32:46 +0200")
Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:
> On 22-10-06 20:28 , Philip Kaludercic wrote:
>> Gerd Möllmann <gerd.moellmann@gmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 22-10-06 20:21 , Philip Kaludercic wrote:
>>>
>>>> In that case what confuses me is that (length obarray) doesn't throw an
>>>> error. Or what useful information does that give me?
>>>
>>> It's a vector, and each vector has a length.
>> But isn't the fact that it is a vector just a detail of the internal
>> implementation?
>
> It's all history. Obarray existed since the Big Bang. Don't use it.
OK, then I'll close the report. But if I am not supposed to use the
obarrays, what would you recommend if I want to count the number of
known symbols? (Context: I am trying to detect all variables defined
in a package, and since that takes a while I wrapped the `mapatoms' call in
a progress reporter, that needs a maximal value).
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-06 16:16 bug#58338: 29.0.50; mapatoms called on more elements than in obarray? Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-06 17:55 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-06 18:21 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-06 18:25 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-06 18:28 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-10-06 18:32 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-06 18:51 ` Philip Kaludercic [this message]
2022-10-06 19:35 ` Basil L. Contovounesios via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2022-10-07 4:52 ` Gerd Möllmann
2022-10-06 18:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-06 18:04 ` Stefan Kangas
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