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Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: Calling a function with undefined symbol
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2022 12:34:20 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

Heime wrote:

> I can call this function with
>
> (mbcomplt 'go)
>
> This even though the symbol "'go" does not exist.

C'mon now, it's such a common and short name, no doubt someone
in the Lisp world has defined it already!

Actually there are a lot more exotic ones that are also
symbols, e.g.

  (symbolp 'symbols-are-us) ; t

Go on, try a bunch with `symbolp' yourself, you'll be
surprised how many symbols there are out there ...

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