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From: Alin Soare <as1789@gmail.com>
To: Emacs Dev <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Generating an unique symbol in elisp
Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 23:19:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTin43EwQ6_nD6-aZOxfez+--7s1QAN=dTvGa3hPe@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

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A very useful function for generating private environments is the
(gensym&optional x) in common lisp. It can replace in some places the
closures.


In Clisp it is defined in C something like this:

char*
gensym (char *x)
{
 static int x;
 char a[100];
 snprintf(a, 100, "%s%d", x? x:"G",  x++);
 return strdup (a);
}

Does this function already exist in elisp ? I looked in the manual and did
not find it...


Alin
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             reply	other threads:[~2010-12-03 21:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-03 21:19 Alin Soare [this message]
2010-12-03 21:30 ` Generating an unique symbol in elisp Edward O'Connor
2010-12-03 21:33   ` Alin Soare
2010-12-03 22:03     ` Edward O'Connor
2010-12-03 22:12       ` Alin Soare
2010-12-03 22:23         ` Drew Adams
2010-12-03 22:38           ` Alin Soare
2010-12-03 22:46         ` Stefan Monnier
2010-12-03 21:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-12-03 21:44   ` Alin Soare
2010-12-03 22:34 ` Stefan Monnier

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