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Re: etymology of obarray
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B. T. Raven |
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Re: etymology of obarray |
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Fri, 16 May 2014 13:25:39 -0500 |
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> Where does the word obarray originate? What is "ob"?
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I think it's 'object', i.e. anything that (type-of) returns. E.g.
(type-of 'type-of) returns > symbol, (type-of 1) returns > integer, etc.
There is or was also an oblist, which includes the same kind of info in
a list rather than a vector.
Ed