From: Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com>
To: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Help making setq work on dynamic symbol
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2024 10:40:47 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAN+1HboPTfwENftbpM9v+BaU8HUUf8yZJG-xqxKF7mCAEBtVbw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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Probably something silly but this seems esoteric enough to ask.
On Emacs 29.4:
(defmacro my/setq (name value)
(let ((sym (intern name)))
`(setq ,sym ,value)))
(defvar foo nil)
(my/setq "foo" t) ; this works
(intern (concat "f" "oo")) ; this works
(my/setq (concat "f" "oo") t) ; this fails with...
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument stringp (concat "f"
"oo"))
intern((concat "f" "oo"))
(let ((sym (intern name))) (list 'setq sym value))
(closure (t) (name value) (let ((sym (intern name))) (list 'setq sym
value)))((concat "f" "oo") t)
macroexpand((my/setq (concat "f" "oo") t))
elisp--eval-last-sexp(nil)
TIA,
-Stephane
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next reply other threads:[~2024-10-18 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-10-18 14:40 Ship Mints [this message]
2024-10-18 15:00 ` Help making setq work on dynamic symbol Eli Zaretskii
2024-10-18 15:02 ` Ship Mints
2024-10-18 15:18 ` Visuwesh
2024-10-18 15:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2024-10-18 15:24 ` Ship Mints
2024-10-18 15:53 ` Ship Mints
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