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Re: why not "stripes" in: (let ((zebra 'stripes) ... ; strings vs symbo
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Damien Wyart |
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Re: why not "stripes" in: (let ((zebra 'stripes) ... ; strings vs symbols? |
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Mon, 30 Dec 2013 14:19:47 +0100 |
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* Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnu.org> in gnu.emacs.help:
> A string is not atomic.
I don't understand, the elisp reference says that strings are atoms:
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eintr/Lisp-Atoms.html
and that the only type not being an atom is the cons cell, and AFAIK,
strings are not cons cells.
As a quick test, evaling
(atom "mystring")
returns t.
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DW