Re: eval trouble

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

David Kastrup wrote:
> Ok, I actually talked nonsense right now: eval does _not_ create or
> intern symbols.  It is the Lisp reader that creates/interns symbols when
> you feed an identifier to it.  The Lisp reader will, when given the
> above, maybe-create/intern/lookup all of let, sym, make-symbol, eval, \`
> or something similar, progn, setq, \, or something similar, sym, put,
> some and value.  And whatever else follows.

Thanks.

>> (mapatoms (lambda (atom)
>>             (when (string= (symbol-name atom)
>>                            "xyzw")
>>               (error "Found %s" atom))))
> 
> Well, you wrote xýzw rather than xyzw above.  But even if you didn't, as
> long as nothing else interned 'xyzw in some manner, such a symbol would
> not get found.

Shit. There is shit on my screen, I did not see that ý. I should keep
the screen more clean ;-)