From: "N. Raghavendra" <nyraghu27132@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Applying intern-soft to a symbol
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 01:21:55 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87shkwb6zo.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOj2CQTUVvoaPw-nOmW4gedtrvh3USxB1Rww37XA+RrcYfiAfw@mail.gmail.com> (John Mastro's message of "Mon, 24 Apr 2017 10:41:43 -0700")
At 2017-04-24T10:41:43-07:00, John Mastro wrote:
> The reader interned the symbol `quux' into the default obarray while
> reading the expression (intern-soft 'quux). Reading occurs before
> evaluation, so `quux' had been interned before the actual call to
> `intern-soft' occurred.
Thanks for the clarification.
I didn't understand that interning was done by the reader, though this
is clearly mentioned in the manual: `If the obarray does not contain a
symbol with that name, the reader makes a new symbol and adds it to the
obarray. Finding or adding a symbol with a certain name is called
“interning” it, and the symbol is then called an “interned symbol”.'
Raghu.
--
N. Raghavendra <raghu@hri.res.in>, http://www.retrotexts.net/
Harish-Chandra Research Institute, http://www.hri.res.in/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-25 19:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-24 15:07 Applying intern-soft to a symbol N. Raghavendra
2017-04-24 17:41 ` John Mastro
2017-04-25 19:51 ` N. Raghavendra [this message]
2017-04-25 23:20 ` Emanuel Berg
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