From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Mentioning symbol put it to obarray? Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:09:17 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87sj5ujon4.fsf@gavenkoa.example.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1358802578 18045 80.91.229.3 (21 Jan 2013 21:09:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:09:38 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Oleksandr Gavenko'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 21 22:09:57 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 1TxOcv-0004AR-7Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:09:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60811 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TxOce-0000WU-3Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:09:40 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42455) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TxOcY-0000WE-Ap for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:09:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TxOcW-0000xW-JS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:09:34 -0500 Original-Received: from userp1040.oracle.com ([156.151.31.81]:40886) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TxOcW-0000wh-9c for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 16:09:32 -0500 Original-Received: from acsinet21.oracle.com (acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237]) by userp1040.oracle.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2/Sentrion-MTA-4.2.2) with ESMTP id r0LL9TeL006686 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:09:30 GMT Original-Received: from acsmt358.oracle.com (acsmt358.oracle.com [141.146.40.158]) by acsinet21.oracle.com (8.14.4+Sun/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r0LL9TT8010444 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 21 Jan 2013 21:09:29 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt110.oracle.com (abhmt110.oracle.com [141.146.116.62]) by acsmt358.oracle.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.12.11) with ESMTP id r0LL9Tqu010479; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:09:29 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/71.202.147.44) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 13:09:29 -0800 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <87sj5ujon4.fsf@gavenkoa.example.com> Thread-Index: Ac34EX0QxV7UBbVeTROr4vt1mo1JnwACdWUg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-Source-IP: acsinet21.oracle.com [141.146.126.237] X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4.x-2.6.x [generic] X-Received-From: 156.151.31.81 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:88753 Archived-At: > (put 'xxx 'some "value") and found symbol "xxx" in obarray. Yes, the Lisp reader interns symbols it reads. > So mentioning any symbol make it globally available (existing)? See above. It is the Lisp reader that is doing the interning you are seeing. > Is it garbage collected from (remember about link in obarray)? Dunno what that question means, sorry.