Re: Lisp help: problem with uninterned symbols

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> I have a problem with symbols that aren't interned in any Emacs
> obarray.  I intern the symbols in my own tables, but I would still
> like to have the symbols as constants in my code, and have them
> compare eq as usual.

I think you're out of luck.  Same thing with any other object, by the way:
dumping a `cons' cell twice in two different forms will lose the sharing
information and will thus result in having two distinct cons cells when
read back.

Two solutions:
- somehow figure out a way to dump your data in a single form
- avoid dumping the raw data and instead force the use of my-intern when
  loading the file.  Maybe with something like

    (defvar my-item (my-intern "foo"))
    (defun foo () my-item)
    (defun bar () my-item)

  of course I strongly suspect that this example code is very different from
  your actual code and turning one into the other my be non-trivial.
  If you can't do it easily, post more details here and we'll happily make
  fun of you.


-- Stefan