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Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol
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Jean Abou Samra |
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Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol |
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Mon, 31 Oct 2022 09:32:57 +0100 |
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Le 31/10/2022 à 09:15, Heime a écrit :
Have written a function named "mbcomplt" that takes a symbol.
(defun mbcomplt (sgnl)
"DOC."
(if (eq sgnl 'go)
(message "go")
(message "nogo")))
I can call this function with
(mbcomplt 'go)
This even though the symbol "'go" does not exist. What is happening here?
My understanding about symbols is that I can make a symbol using
(defvar seqr 3) ; set symbol seqr with value 3
(setq seqr 5) ; set symbol seqr with value 5
(symbol-value 'seqr) ; get value of symbol (returns 5)
(symbol-name 'seqr) ; get name of symbol (returns "seqr")
It may be helpful to view symbols as some kind of modified
strings. The symbol 'go is an amorphous object, just a name
for something. You can use it as a name, or as a discrete
key, or whatever. You can also "define" it, or rather
define a variable with its name, and then you are able
to use symbol-value on it, but the symbol object itself is
a *potential* name and does not need to have a variable with
its name defined in order to be used.
Jean
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- Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol, Heime, 2022/10/31
- Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol, tomas, 2022/10/31
- Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol, Jean Abou Samra, 2022/10/31
- Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol, Heime, 2022/10/31
- Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol, Jean Abou Samra, 2022/10/31
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