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Re: Should let symbols be interned?


From: Lennart Borgman (gmail)
Subject: Re: Should let symbols be interned?
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:09:23 +0100
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 03:49:55 +0100
From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden>

   (let (this-was-no-symbol))

Then evaluate the intern-soft line again. Now the variable is interned.

Should let symbols be interned this way?

Maybe it looks strange at 3:49am ;-).  How else do you expect the Lisp
reader to let-bind a symbol?  The obarray is the way symbols are
communicated between different parts of ELisp code.


In a separate obarray for let symbols.




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