From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: intern vs. make-symbol Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:33:17 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87liawj6ra.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1360546422 21094 80.91.229.3 (11 Feb 2013 01:33:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2013 01:33:42 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 11 02:34:03 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 1U4iHS-0005Fv-MH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 02:34:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54481 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U4iH9-00025U-Cl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:33:43 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57878) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U4iH2-00024G-Gh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:33:38 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U4iH1-0001Or-G6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:33:36 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:56681) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U4iH1-0001Oc-A9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:33:35 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U4iHH-00059i-Cn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 02:33:51 +0100 Original-Received: from 69-165-153-237.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.165.153.237]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 02:33:51 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-165-153-237.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 11 Feb 2013 02:33:51 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 8 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-165-153-237.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:9O+iZ7DmU8CnOrBRWAqkPwmeWs0= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:89054 Archived-At: > give the same results - and why isn't this so? Because the implicit "interning" is done while `read'ing the code (i.e. while turning the text into a sexp), not while `eval'ing the code (which takes a sexp and runs it). Stefan