From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: About `autoload-do-load' Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:28:18 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1357666210 26515 80.91.229.3 (8 Jan 2013 17:30:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2013 17:30:10 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 08 18:30:28 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 1Tsd0N-0007wY-SM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 18:30:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56714 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tsd08-0003EI-7o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:30:12 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="78fb7125a45724f15e21604c94a7d968"; logging-data="16231"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+GNpIJi8XTo5PZSDlgLzrl" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0e9r0UQJtgeECcXFQYS8dEIaqis= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:196226 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:88529 Archived-At: In article , Stefan Monnier 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 *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***