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From: tomas@tuxteam.de
To: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Replacement for Common Lisp's GENSYM in Emacs Lisp
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 2010 06:48:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100307054835.GB13731@tomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r5nx1nqo.fsf@mithlond.arda>

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On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 05:19:43PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote:
> In Common Lisp GENSYM function generates unique symbol names. It seems
> that Emacs Lisp does not have similar function (unless with CL
> extension). In plain Emacs Lisp code and macros, what would you suggest
> as a replacement for GENSYM? Just some very unlikely names?

It seems `make-symbol' is what you are looking for. It generates an
uninterned symbol. Cf. Emacs Lisp manual "13.6.3 Local Variables in
Macro Expansions" to find an usage example.

Regards
- -- tomás
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-07  5:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-06 15:19 Replacement for Common Lisp's GENSYM in Emacs Lisp Teemu Likonen
2010-03-07  5:48 ` tomas [this message]
2010-03-07  6:13   ` Teemu Likonen
     [not found]   ` <mailman.2390.1267942438.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-03-11 22:48     ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
     [not found] <mailman.2359.1267888813.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-03-06 16:10 ` David Kastrup
2010-03-06 16:35   ` Teemu Likonen
2010-03-07  7:07 ` Tim X
2010-03-07 19:06   ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-07 22:07     ` Helmut Eller
2010-03-08  4:55       ` Stefan Monnier
2010-03-08  7:01         ` Helmut Eller
2010-03-09  2:33           ` Stefan Monnier

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