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bug#44365: 27.1; intern-soft given a symbol never returns nil
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#44365: 27.1; intern-soft given a symbol never returns nil |
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Sun, 01 Nov 2020 15:09:01 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Robert Weiner <rsw@gnu.org> writes:
> "Return the canonical symbol named NAME, or nil if none exists.
> NAME may be a string or a symbol. If it is a symbol, that exact
> symbol is searched for."
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> So, the doc string must need changing if your view is correct.
No, it's talking about searching for a symbol in a different obarray, I
think (the second argument to intern-soft):
(intern-soft 'foo other-obarray)
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