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

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Lin Sun <sunlin7 <at> hotmail.com>
Subject: bug#78952: closed (Re: bug#78952: Bug or feature? intern-soft
 return non-exists symbol)
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:35:04 +0000

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Your bug report

#78952: Bug or feature? intern-soft return non-exists symbol

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lin Sun <sunlin7 <at> hotmail.com>
Cc: 78952-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#78952: Bug or feature? intern-soft return non-exists symbol
Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2025 16:34:18 +0300

> Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2025 05:20:05 -0700
> From: Lin Sun <sunlin7 <at> hotmail.com>
> Cc: 78952 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Thank you for comments, I use the intern-soft to detect symbols existing for package but found it's failed
> even I unbound the variables. :) 

If you want to know whether a symbol is bound as a variable use
'foundp', not 'intern-soft'.

> Please feel free to close the ticket, thank you!

Done.

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From: Lin Sun <sunlin7 <at> hotmail.com>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Bug or feature? intern-soft return non-exists symbol
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

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