From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David De La Harpe Golden Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#7146: (make-symbol "") issues Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:41:19 +0100 Message-ID: <4E2356FF.4030904@harpegolden.net> References: <4CA6B2BE.7070705@gmail.com> <4CA7D1E3.90800@gmail.com> <87k4m0giy4.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <4CA7FC00.5080905@gmail.com> <87fwwn3opr.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <87bp7bfu3c.fsf@gnu.org> <87iq1jfhre.fsf@stupidchicken.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1310938944 11267 80.91.229.12 (17 Jul 2011 21:42:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:42:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 7146@debbugs.gnu.org, Frank , Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen , Andreas Schwab , Chong Yidong To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 17 23:42:19 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QiZ6Q-00087Q-T0 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:42:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53263 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QiZ6P-0005V3-MQ for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:42:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:34140) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QiZ6B-0005Uv-FT for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:42:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QiZ6A-00018i-Ju for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:42:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:53704) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QiZ6A-00018e-FH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:42:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QiZ69-0006cS-OF; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:42:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: David De La Harpe Golden Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-To: owner@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:42:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 7146 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 7146-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B7146.131093889025400 (code B ref 7146); Sun, 17 Jul 2011 21:42:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 7146) by debbugs.gnu.org; 17 Jul 2011 21:41:30 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QiZ5d-0006bd-F6 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:41:29 -0400 Original-Received: from harpegolden.net ([65.99.215.13]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QiZ5b-0006bQ-PM for 7146@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:41:28 -0400 Original-Received: from [87.198.47.59] (87-198-47-59.ptr.magnet.ie [87.198.47.59]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "David De La Harpe Golden", Issuer "David De La Harpe Golden Personal CA rev 3" (verified OK)) by harpegolden.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2E11168440; Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:41:21 +0100 (IST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.18) Gecko/20110626 Icedove/3.1.11 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 17:42:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:49361 Archived-At: On 17/07/11 04:16, Stefan Monnier wrote: > "#:" is the obvious choice for the uninterned representation. > It already works for printing, but is not understood by the reader. > Is it? If you mean just a "#:" on its own it looks a bit odd to me, but as usual I'm coming from CL. > CommonLisp has a |....| syntax for interned symbols which trivially > allows empty symbols, That's not just for interned symbols. #:|| is read as an uninterned empty-string named symbol in common lisp, #:|hello world| as an uninterned symbol with a space in the name etc.