From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Generating an unique symbol in elisp Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:46:05 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291416389 29785 80.91.229.12 (3 Dec 2010 22:46:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 22:46:29 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Edward O'Connor , Emacs Dev To: Alin Soare Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 03 23:46:22 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1POeOT-0003vG-CJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:46:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50936 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1POeOS-0006gl-Oh for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:46:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=55235 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1POeOM-0006f4-Qc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:46:15 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1POeOL-0002jf-CJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:46:14 -0500 Original-Received: from pruche.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.22]:33929) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1POeOL-0002jX-9u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:46:13 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by pruche.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id oB3Mk9CH029294; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 17:46:09 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 193F8A8364; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 17:46:05 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Alin Soare's message of "Sat, 4 Dec 2010 00:12:26 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3698=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:133372 Archived-At: > Can you bind a value in variable field/ evaluate a symbol as a variable if > it is not interned ? Yes. The fact that it's interned or not only affects the Lisp reader, not the interpreter. > Otherwise, can you create an obarray (different of main obarr) and intern > within it only a few symbols (in this case the matter ), Yes. > and evaluate within that environment ? Elisp does not have such a notion, no. Stefan