Re: obarray

[Emanuel Berg]

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

> uninterned-symbol is an interned symbol. Its *value*
> is the symbol foo, which is not interned; foo
> shouldn't show up in the function you wrote earlier
> in the thread; unless you happen to have interned
> some other symbol by that name -- it would probably
> be clearer if I'd done:
>
> (setq uninterned-symbol (make-symbol
> "something-you-have-never-typed"))

OK, get it, thank you.

> Now try your function and see if
> something-you-have-never-typed shows up.
>
> The value of the symbol
> something-you-have-never-typed would then be bar.

Is there a way to confirm this? How can I access a
symbol's value, if the symbol isn't in the obarray? If
it isn't in the obarray, where is it? Is there a buffer
and/or "scope" (i.e. form or process) local/temporary
object array or anything of the like?

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