From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: obarray Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 18:42:40 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87d2kvqspi.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <87haabq6gl.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87bo0irj13.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87wqj6pva0.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87txeaxb4l.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87r49cp6o5.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> <87lhzkp4cx.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1387302316 7150 80.91.229.3 (17 Dec 2013 17:45:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 17:45:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 17 18:45:23 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vsyhu-00037g-Ht for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 18:45:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34742 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vsyhu-0005Pb-5P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 17 Dec 2013 12:45:22 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.mb-net.net!open-news-network.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:SzEsXwZgkGGNf6wnS2/XZ3SgldU= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202793 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:95062 Archived-At: Barry Margolin writes: > It's a tradeoff. If you use uninterned symbols, > debugging the macro is harder because you can't > easily get the value of the temporaries. OK. > The name they chose is so unlikely that a collision > will only happen if someone is doing it > deliberately. We don't worry about such internally > malicious code. I agree a collision is extremely unlikely but on the other hand, you do really have to spend time debugging `dotimes'? -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573