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 21:40:50 -0500 Message-ID: References: <83o9l6bhfs.fsf@gnu.org> <1fedc60d-35a7-4ff0-adbb-b6b8306d192f@default> <83wozu9f6r.fsf@gnu.org> <83k1vq6j1u.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1517971208 14966 195.159.176.226 (7 Feb 2018 02:40:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2018 02:40:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, drew.adams@oracle.com, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 07 03:40:03 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 1ejFeJ-0002t2-RR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Feb 2018 03:39:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37973 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejFgL-0003IV-5q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 21:41:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56116) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejFfb-0003HD-Ql for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 21:41:13 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejFfa-0007A6-OO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 21:41:11 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55977) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ejFfH-0006wG-5J; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 21:40:51 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1ejFfG-0006AH-Eq; Tue, 06 Feb 2018 21:40:50 -0500 In-reply-to: <83k1vq6j1u.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 06 Feb 2018 20:59:25 +0200) 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:222610 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. ]]] > > In that case, I wish the person who wrote that had made it clear > > it was not a real, existing problem. > That person did: > For example, suppose you have a Lisp program that produces the > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > following error message when compiled/executed: Those words do NOT say that this is an unreal example. -- 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.