On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 9:02 PM John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, it can. But then the examples > > (codeset-symbol 'errno 1) => EPERM(codeset-number 'errno 'EPERM) => 1 > > aren't going to work. The whole idea here is that `errno` is the name of a > bidirectionalmapping between symbols and numbers, and it can't be. > > I still don't understand. Can't there be a bidirectional mapping between symbols and numbers *on each machine*? The mapping doesn't change from run to run on the same machine, at least not between reboots.
