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Re: `setplist' on local var escaping let binding


From: Andreas Schwab
Subject: Re: `setplist' on local var escaping let binding
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:06:29 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux)

MON KEY <address@hidden> writes:

> What is this then: 'a-quoted-variable-but-not-a-symbol ?

It is a list consisting the symbols quote and
a-quoted-variable-but-not-a-symbol.

> Are you saying that `setplist' is only for top-level symbols?

What is a "top-level symbol"?

> Doesn't quoting the variable intern?

The only instances that interns symbols are the lisp reader and the
function intern.

Andreas.

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