From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs and guile (Re: ehelp woes, or why I hate a module that I love so much) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 16:16:18 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20020704135240.4CBB.LEKTU@terra.es> <20020704164911.4CC1.LEKTU@terra.es> <200207181456.g6IEu0J25108@aztec.santafe.edu> <200207190423.g6J4N2A13705@rum.cs.yale.edu> <200207191334.g6JDYMe15622@rum.cs.yale.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1027088254 13017 127.0.0.1 (19 Jul 2002 14:17:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 14:17:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ken Raeburn , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17VYZZ-0003Nq-00 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 16:17:33 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17VYly-0006Z0-00 for ; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 16:30:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17VYZS-0002dP-00; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 10:17:26 -0400 Original-Received: from ns.suse.de ([213.95.15.193] helo=Cantor.suse.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17VYYZ-0002Zb-00; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 10:16:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Hermes.suse.de (Charybdis.suse.de [213.95.15.201]) by Cantor.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1515E146DA; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 16:16:31 +0200 (MEST) X-Authentication-Warning: sykes.suse.de: schwab set sender to schwab@suse.de using -f Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" X-Yow: Hold the MAYO & pass the COSMIC AWARENESS... In-Reply-To: <200207191334.g6JDYMe15622@rum.cs.yale.edu> ("Stefan Monnier"'s message of "Fri, 19 Jul 2002 09:34:22 -0400") Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.3.50 (ia64-suse-linux) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:5900 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:5900 "Stefan Monnier" writes: |> > > I'm pretty sure that Scheme's symbol-name (if such a function exists) |> > > returns a brand new string. |> > |> > Which would be another difference -- retrieving the name twice would |> > give two values not "eq?" while in Emacs Lisp they are "eq". So is |> > *that* property something that anyone might rely on in their Lisp code? |> |> I don't think I've ever seen code rely on it, but I like it from |> a performance point of view. If you care about performance you should eq the symbols, not their names. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 Nürnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."