From: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 7146@debbugs.gnu.org, Frank <some.frank@gmail.com>,
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>,
Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Subject: bug#7146: (make-symbol "") issues
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:41:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E2356FF.4030904@harpegolden.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvei1pzliv.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
On 17/07/11 04:16, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> "#:" is the obvious choice for the uninterned representation.
> It already works for printing, but is not understood by the reader.
>
Is it? If you mean just a "#:" on its own it looks a bit odd to me, but
as usual I'm coming from CL.
> CommonLisp has a |....| syntax for interned symbols which trivially
> allows empty symbols,
That's not just for interned symbols. #:|| is read as an uninterned
empty-string named symbol in common lisp, #:|hello world| as an
uninterned symbol with a space in the name etc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-17 21:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-02 4:19 bug#7146: (make-symbol "") issues Frank
2010-10-03 0:44 ` Frank
2010-10-03 1:32 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-03 3:44 ` Frank
2010-10-03 4:05 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-03 4:14 ` Frank
2010-10-03 4:36 ` Juanma Barranquero
2010-10-03 10:28 ` Johan Bockgård
2010-10-03 14:55 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-03 23:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-14 14:25 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2011-07-14 16:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-17 3:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-17 8:15 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-18 15:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-07-21 19:25 ` Chong Yidong
2011-07-28 21:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-17 21:41 ` David De La Harpe Golden [this message]
2010-10-03 18:45 ` MON KEY
2010-10-03 18:56 ` Chong Yidong
2010-10-03 23:48 ` MON KEY
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