On Thu, 23 Jun 2016, Noam Postavsky wrote:

> I think we should be a little more specific, not
> just give examples, something like:
>
>    Note that functions which take a symbol argument (like
>    ‘symbol-value’, ‘boundp’, and ‘set’) can only retrieve or modify a
>    variable’s dynamic binding (i.e., the contents of its symbol’s
>    value cell).
>
> Sort of releated: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=21185
+1
I read that part of the manual before opening this bug and i was still 
confuse.