Re: obarray

[Emanuel Berg]

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> Values are unrelated to whether a symbol is in the
> obarray. An uninterned symbol can have a value.

OK.

> (setq uninterned-symbol (make-symbol "foo"))
> (setf (symbol-value uninterned-symbol) 'bar)

That looks backward. It looks like you are setting the
value (i.e. data) to 'bar. But `symbol-value' returns
not only the data for practical purposes, but the
*place* of the data (and those are the same)?

> This symbol "foo" won't be in the obarray, but it
> still has a value.

To me, with the defun I wrote in the beginning of this
thread, I *do* get uninterned-symbol, and that should
only look in obarray - also, the value seems to be not
'bar, but "foo" (?).

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