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Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much) |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Jul 2002 00:23:02 -0400 |
> A related issue is the symbol name -- a Lisp symbol name is a Lisp
> string, with some of the associated fields ignored for matching
> purposes. The names themselves can have text properties:
>
> ELISP> (symbol-name 'booga-booga)
> #("booga-booga" 0 3 nil 3 6
> (some-prop some-val)
> 6 11 nil)
>
> (I got this by previously interning a string with the same contents
> and some text properties.)
Actually, this is a recent change, right ? In Emacs-21.2, `symbol-name'
always returns a string with no properties. In that case we should
probably also strip the properties when we create a new symbol, instead
of wasting those intervals.
> An Emacs Lisp symbol's name can also be changed after interning, such
> that it won't be found when interning either the old name or
> (probably) the new name.
This is undocumented and I don't know of any code that relies on it
(well, I know of some such code, but not in any elisp package).
I think it should be considered as a misfeature/bug (but I don't
think it's worth fixing unless the fix is to make the output of
`symbol-name' be read-only).
> I don't know what Scheme's specifications
> might say about such cases. (Much as I like Scheme, I'm hardly an
> expert; on subtle Scheme issues I'll readily defer to others.)
I'm pretty sure that Scheme's symbol-name (if such a function exists)
returns a brand new string.
Stefan
- Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much, (continued)
- Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much, Simon Josefsson, 2002/07/04
- Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much, Simon Josefsson, 2002/07/04
- Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much, Juanma Barranquero, 2002/07/04
- emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Ken Raeburn, 2002/07/16
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Juanma Barranquero, 2002/07/17
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Kai Großjohann, 2002/07/17
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Richard Stallman, 2002/07/18
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Ken Raeburn, 2002/07/18
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Richard Stallman, 2002/07/18
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Ken Raeburn, 2002/07/18
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much),
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Ken Raeburn, 2002/07/19
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Stefan Monnier, 2002/07/19
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Andreas Schwab, 2002/07/19
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Stefan Monnier, 2002/07/19
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Richard Stallman, 2002/07/19
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Ken Raeburn, 2002/07/19
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Marius Vollmer, 2002/07/19
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Richard Stallman, 2002/07/19
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Marius Vollmer, 2002/07/20
- Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much), Richard Stallman, 2002/07/21