From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: obarray Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 18:43:45 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87txeaxb4l.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <87haabq6gl.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87bo0irj13.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87wqj6pva0.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1387129518 32155 80.91.229.3 (15 Dec 2013 17:45:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 17:45:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 15 18:45:26 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VsFkq-0007mw-Uv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 18:45:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51916 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VsFkq-000770-Ja for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 15 Dec 2013 12:45:24 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.mb-net.net!open-news-network.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:8towPdjHC8ST8vgubw9DIIK/WTw= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202746 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95015 Archived-At: Barry Margolin writes: > uninterned-symbol is an interned symbol. Its *value* > is the symbol foo, which is not interned; foo > shouldn't show up in the function you wrote earlier > in the thread; unless you happen to have interned > some other symbol by that name -- it would probably > be clearer if I'd done: > > (setq uninterned-symbol (make-symbol > "something-you-have-never-typed")) OK, get it, thank you. > Now try your function and see if > something-you-have-never-typed shows up. > > The value of the symbol > something-you-have-never-typed would then be bar. Is there a way to confirm this? How can I access a symbol's value, if the symbol isn't in the obarray? If it isn't in the obarray, where is it? Is there a buffer and/or "scope" (i.e. form or process) local/temporary object array or anything of the like? -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573