GNU bug report logs - #11342
24.1.50; HOOK variable name in `add-hook' etc. confusing

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Reported by: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de

Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:45:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.1.50

Done: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #17 received at 11342 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>, 11342 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#11342: 24.1.50;
	HOOK variable name in `add-hook' etc. confusing
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2012 08:47:47 -0400

>> The manual sometimes calls these values being symbols "hook", and
>> sometimes "hook variable".
> * (elisp) Hooks::
>     A "hook" is a variable where you can store a function or functions to
>     be called on a particular occasion by an existing program.

Actually, we need to rework some of that, because it can't be just "any
variable": it has to be a dynamically-scoped variable, or rather it has
to be a symbol.


        Stefan
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