Re: obarray

[Emanuel Berg]

Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:

>> CL or not, I get the same situation (what I can
>> see), the symbol *does* end up in obarray, and that
>> second part (setf or set) - what is that supposed to
>> do? What I can see it doesn't change the value,
>
> (symbol-value uninterned-symbol)
>
> ==> bar
>
> Note that we are not speaking about the symbol
> uninterned-symbol, which is in obarray, but about its
> value, which is another symbol that is not in
> obarray, has name "foo", and now a value of bar.  We
> made that uninterned symbol the value of another
> interned symbol because we can't refer to an
> uninterned symbol directly in a program.

Right. Chrystal clear. This answers most of the
questions in my previous post, I think, although don't
hesitate to elaborate (as always). I'm very
appreciative of this.

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