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Re: What's wrong with value?


From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: What's wrong with value?
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 17:05:15 GMT

In article <871y2l73pv.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com>,
Pascal Bourguignon  <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
>
>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
>
>(progn (setq value :toto)
>       (show value))         ;; well, here yes it's assigned !
>==> :toto
>(show value)                 ;; but not here !?!?  What's happening?
>==> nil
>(show (assoc 'value (buffer-local-variables)))
>==> nil

Try 'C-h v value'

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