From: Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: About `autoload-do-load'
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:28:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <barmar-BC803D.12281808012013@news.eternal-september.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.16933.1357660011.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
In article <mailman.16933.1357660011.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > Yes, function value and function cell are equivalent in this context.
>
> Not quite: a "cell" is a place somewhere in memory that can contain
> a value. So the "function cell" of a symbol *holds* (as opposed to
> "is") a "function value".
But the way the phrase was being used in the documentation in question
doesn't distinguish these two concepts.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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2013-01-01 12:51 ` About `autoload-do-load' Barry Margolin
2013-01-08 15:46 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.16933.1357660011.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-01-08 17:28 ` Barry Margolin [this message]
2013-01-08 17:50 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-01 12:13 Xue Fuqiao
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