Re: problems with flet on last emacs

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:

>> Ok, both are nil, so x and x are different symbols.  cl uses macroexp's
>> macro expansion macros at various places, and `macroexp-let2' uses
>> (make-symbol "x") to create new symbols.  That's not making it easier to
>> understand...
>
> That'd be a "bug" in the emacs lisp printer.
>
>
> Symbols that are not interned in any package should be printed with
> the #: prefix.  eg. in emacs-version "23.4.2", (make-symbol "x") -->
> #:x

Are you sure you haven't set `print-gensym'?  If that's nil, it prints
just x here (Emacs 24.1).  And even then you can't distinguish #:x and
#:x just by looking at the expansion.  For that, you need
`print-circle', too.

Bye,
Tassilo