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Re: obarray

From: Michael Heerdegen
Subject: Re: obarray
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 02:56:57 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) 
Hi,

> So it is a hash table of symbols: variables, constants,
> :keywords, functions, ...?
>
> And when you do `defvar', is the symbol name inserted
> into this data structure based on some property -
> perhaps the name itself, or type (if a "symbol" isn't
> atomic)?
>
> Is the value inserted as well or do they use some sort
> of pointer scheme?

That's all described very well in

  (info "(elisp) Creating Symbols")


Michael.
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