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intern vs. make-symbol


From: Thorsten Jolitz
Subject: intern vs. make-symbol
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2013 20:42:01 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.130002 (Ma Gnus v0.2) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux)

Hi List, 

assume org-babel-load-languages is similar to:

,-------------------------------
| ((emacs-lisp . t) (python . t))
`-------------------------------

Shouldn't this 

,------------------------------------------------------
| (assq (intern "emacs-lisp") org-babel-load-languages)
| (emacs-lisp . t)
`------------------------------------------------------

and this

,--------------------------------------------------
| (assq (eval `(quote ,(make-symbol "emacs-lisp")))
|       org-babel-load-languages)
| nil
`--------------------------------------------------

give the same results - and why isn't this so?

-- 
cheers,
Thorsten





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