From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why "symbol's value" error about a list? Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2018 09:51:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83o9l6bhfs.fsf@gnu.org> <1fedc60d-35a7-4ff0-adbb-b6b8306d192f@default> <83wozu9f6r.fsf@gnu.org> <20180205203544.GA5310@ACM> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517928736 31082 195.159.176.226 (6 Feb 2018 14:52:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 14:52:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 06 15:52:11 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1ej4bT-0007nn-Ig for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 15:52:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53003 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ej4dU-0007mf-R5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 09:54:16 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54207) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ej4av-0006ab-W9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 09:51:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ej4av-0000OY-72 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 09:51:38 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:43503) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ej4ag-0000Dt-RL; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 09:51:22 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ej4ag-0007nM-7G; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 09:51:22 -0500 In-reply-to: <20180205203544.GA5310@ACM> (message from Alan Mackenzie on Mon, 5 Feb 2018 20:35:44 +0000) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:222575 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > > > Symbol's value as variable is void: 'foobaz > > That still seems wrong. > Again "’foobaz", not "foobaz" is the symbol, here. This makes sense, as an issue about quotes. But why, then, did the other message talk about using a confusable letter and say that was the ONLY problem. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.