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[220.227.103.136]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id y123sm37931192pfg.52.2017.04.25.12.51.58 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 25 Apr 2017 12:52:00 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: (John Mastro's message of "Mon, 24 Apr 2017 10:41:43 -0700") Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:400e:c05::242 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:112885 Archived-At: 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 =E2=80=9Cinterning=E2=80=9D it, and the symbol is then called an =E2=80=9Ci= nterned symbol=E2=80=9D.' Raghu. -- N. Raghavendra , http://www.retrotexts.net/ Harish-Chandra Research Institute, http://www.hri.res.in/