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Re: Separating obarray handling from abbrevs


From: Przemysław Wojnowski
Subject: Re: Separating obarray handling from abbrevs
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 2015 20:09:53 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

>> From: Przemysław Wojnowski <address@hidden>
>> I don't understand one thing, what is purpose of "(intern "" obarray)".
>> If anyone could explain it would be great.
>
> Please tell what is unclear or confusing in that expression.

I think I understand now... abbrev is using "" to create a (unique)
symbol in which it will store its metadata as properties. "" presumably
has been chosen to not interfere with abbrevs that will go into the
same obarray. Am I correct?

Thanks!



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