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Re: Weird error message "wrong-type-argument symbolp (quote foo)"


From: Teemu Likonen
Subject: Re: Weird error message "wrong-type-argument symbolp (quote foo)"
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:18:50 GMT
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux)

On 2009-06-10 12:12 (UTC), Teemu Likonen wrote:

> Actually only in your first, broken example "symbolp" and "symbol-value"
> get a list like "(quote foo)" as argument and thus they complain. In
> your latter examples they get symbol "foo" as argument. The reason is
> the double quoting.

I meant "the reason [for this difference] is the [previously mentioned]
double quoting".


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