Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!bbn!apple!oracle!newshost!rcardena From: rcardena@hqpyr1.oracle.com (Ricardo A. Cardenas) Newsgroups: gnu.emacs Subject: in Emacs-Lisp, how do you find if a symbol is defined? Message-ID: Date: 5 Feb 89 08:16:29 GMT Sender: news@oracle.uucp Distribution: gnu Organization: Oracle Corp. Lines: 10 How do you find if a symbol is defined, without getting an error if it isn't? i.e. executing symbol-value on an undefined symbol gives an error. Thank you -- Ricardo Cardenas || Internet: rcardena%oracle.uucp@HPLABS.HP.COM Oracle International || also, mail forwarded by: cardenas%dagmar@Athena.MIT.EDU Belmont, California ||{hplabs,uunet,mit-eddie,harvard,rutgers}!oracle!rcardena USA - near Canada ||