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Re: About `autoload-do-load'
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: About `autoload-do-load' |
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Tue, 08 Jan 2013 12:28:18 -0500 |
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In article <mailman.16933.1357660011.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:
> > Yes, function value and function cell are equivalent in this context.
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> Not quite: a "cell" is a place somewhere in memory that can contain
> a value. So the "function cell" of a symbol *holds* (as opposed to
> "is") a "function value".
But the way the phrase was being used in the documentation in question
doesn't distinguish these two concepts.
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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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