Subject: Bug or feature? intern-soft return non-exists symbol

From: Lin Sun <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2025 04:22:38 +0000

Hi, get confused intern-soft return a symbol which already unbound, 

Here are the lines to make a symbol then makunbound the symbol, but after that the intern-soft still return the symbol:

(setq a-test-variable-unbound-later t)

(intern-soft "a-test-variable-unbound-later")

(makunbound 'a-test-variable-unbound-later)

(boundp 'a-test-variable-unbound-later)

(intern-soft "a-test-variable-unbound-later") ;; why not nil?

It's a feature or a bug? Thanks