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bug#44365: 27.1; intern-soft given a symbol never returns nil
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Andreas Schwab |
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bug#44365: 27.1; intern-soft given a symbol never returns nil |
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Sun, 01 Nov 2020 15:20:34 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) |
On Nov 01 2020, Robert Weiner wrote:
> "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.
There is no bug here. Since the symbol already exists in the obarry, it
is returned. If you pass it a symbol that doesn't exist in the obarray,
the function returns nil.
Andreas.
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