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Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:

> What's happening with this symbol:
>
> (setq value :toto) ;; C-x C-e, :toto appears in Mini-buffer.
> (show value)       ;; But value has not been assigned!
> ==> nil
>
> Note that  while 'value is a  method defined with eieio

I don't think eieio is the culprit.

Try it with a clean 'emacs -q --no-site-file' -- the same thing happens.
Very mysterious!