Re: shorter form of frequently-seen lisp idiom?

[rgb]

Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> "rgb" <rbielaws@i1.net> writes:
>
> > [code]
> > symbol-value is
> > probably what I should have coded.
>
> instead of obarray + set + eval,
> why not use hash table + puthash + gethash?
>
Using obarray let me copy exactly what the lisp modes
were doing to get eldoc working.
I've never used the hash functions.  Being unfamiliar, I
didn't realize they might be useful to this situation.
Now that I look at them, I see what you mean.
Thanks for the suggestion.