Re: [External] : Why I cannot use this variable in macro call from function?

[Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>]

Major problem is that this does not behave how I expect it to behave:

(defvar (intern "my-function-123") nil)

(type-of 'my-function-123) ⇒ symbol

NOT WORKING:
(defvar 'my-function-123 nil)


(defvar (intern "my-function-123") nil):

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (wrong-type-argument symbolp (intern "my-function-123"))
  boundp((intern "my-function-123"))
  elisp--eval-defun-1((defvar (intern "my-function-123") nil))
  elisp--eval-last-sexp(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  funcall-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
  command-execute(eval-last-sexp)

Though it says that after `defvar' should come SYMBOL

defvar is a special form in ‘src/eval.c’.

(defvar SYMBOL &optional INITVALUE DOCSTRING)

  Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 1.5.

Define SYMBOL as a variable, and return SYMBOL.



-- 
Jean

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