Re: problems with flet on last emacs

["Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com>]

Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org> writes:

> "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.

Yes, but I've been using emacs for so long… I must have set those
variables in my ~/.emacs twenty years ago and forgotten about them.

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