Re: ask for the value of several variables at once

[Uwe Brauer]

   > tomas wrote:

   > Here is a "classical" solution. How to rewrite
   > it the "other" way, only Jehovah knows...

   >     (defun echo-vars (&rest vars)
   >       (mapcar
   >        (lambda (v) (list (symbol-name v) (symbol-value  v)))
   >        vars))
   >     ;; (echo-vars 'fill-column 'buffer-file-name)

Well but how is this supposed to work? So far, for me only Yuri's
solution returned what I was looking for. I wonder what I miss?