gensym - a schizofrenic case?

gensym - a schizofrenic case?

[Lennart Borgman]

From byte-compiling I get

  ert2.el:133:21:Warning: Function `gensym' from cl package called at runtime

In cl.el I see that the function is autoloaded. Is it supposed to be
used? When? How?

Re: gensym - a schizofrenic case?

[Miles Bader]

"Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com> writes:
>   ert2.el:133:21:Warning: Function `gensym' from cl package called at runtime
>
> In cl.el I see that the function is autoloaded. Is it supposed to be
> used? When? How?

I think in general, most packages just don't use gensym.  You can use
make-symbol or #:foo instead.

-Miles

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Re: gensym - a schizofrenic case?

[Stefan Monnier]

>> From byte-compiling I get
>   ert2.el:133:21:Warning: Function `gensym' from cl package called at runtime

> In cl.el I see that the function is autoloaded. Is it supposed to be
> used? When? How?

My guess is that it's present in the macro-expanded code.  It's not
quite autoloaded (the autoload cookie only means that it'll be
autoloaded if you've done (require 'cl) before).

Try to figure out which macro-call causes the above problem, we may want
to fix the macro so as to use make-symbol instead.


        Stefan