From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Building Emacs overflowed pure space Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:57:47 -0400 Message-ID: References: <7dbe73ed0607180138x35e9d9bft3e42f20cb369795c@mail.gmail.com> <200607181929.k6IJTZN9028639@jane.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1153486692 12731 80.91.229.2 (21 Jul 2006 12:58:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2006 12:58:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mathias.dahl@gmail.com, teirllm@dms.auburn.edu, ralphm@members.fsf.org, mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 21 14:58:09 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G3uZz-0003xY-Dp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 14:58:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G3uZy-0007jo-RG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:58:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G3uZo-0007jQ-Uh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:57:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1G3uZl-0007it-Ft for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:57:56 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G3uZl-0007iq-Cm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:57:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [209.226.175.74] (helo=tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1G3uZs-0004Ox-HG; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:58:00 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([70.53.192.251]) by tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.13 201-253-122-130-113-20050324) with ESMTP id <20060721125733.WSKI16051.tomts20-srv.bellnexxia.net@localhost>; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:57:33 -0400 Original-Received: by localhost (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 8CF2790A6; Fri, 21 Jul 2006 08:57:47 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:46:42 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:57427 Archived-At: >> If the table that arranges for all references to one symbol within >> a function to come out as the same symbol is preserved between functions, >> that ought to do the job. >> However, this might be inconvenient to do. > Indeed: it make conflate two different symbols into one > No it wouldn't. With my change in the macro, compilation of a single > source file, indeed all compilation in a single Emacs session, would > use only one symbol for this. Well, that's only true if the change in the reader only applies to dolist. If it applies more generally, it may conflate distinct symbols used in *other* macros. Stefan