From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Edward O'Connor" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Generating an unique symbol in elisp Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 14:03:02 -0800 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291413816 18485 80.91.229.12 (3 Dec 2010 22:03:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 22:03:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Dev To: Alin Soare Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 03 23:03:32 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1POdj1-0003la-Cx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:03:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48784 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1POdj0-0006pC-N3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:03:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34802 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1POdit-0006kQ-U4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:03:25 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1POdis-0001ZK-T0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:03:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-qw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.216.41]:43490) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1POdis-0001ZG-N4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:03:22 -0500 Original-Received: by qwk4 with SMTP id 4so259440qwk.0 for ; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:03:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:mime-version:received:in-reply-to :references:from:date:message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=gW4/6a6PmKA6dx0OzE/InwCRLZvlHThwdjZb7CWCoZg=; b=xEndZntFG0jfCLWQmGw5cZ7eMgMr/vJOb5mpDZG2PoAMIUaTASCvDiRhxJY0BCCaOj GT23/3fKk4MaKXzLRElYG9n70kJ8aYypeCTFWFyY+vxSuLZg2SImNqbWSJO6fPz0y9zr jEEGE/52GP73yINXpwiRhdO8ZuzZDoX0ipMew= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; b=mdvcs+Zm3jov/9r7weSoCcXnGIq/RzEipDdS4/DNzFFdUeINEUfyqRXatfD8gl+5zi bOr5gHqcuXjYg++C6Jcr/SubQwFXyX7PYkpzNg0UXvtJMm2i8KqG05zqTOk8TgH6i5VE NqpcmbibSMOV6fKy+Jk/lUo12D6aubOPsXfDI= Original-Received: by 10.229.220.81 with SMTP id hx17mr1919757qcb.38.1291413802329; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 14:03:22 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.229.11.148 with HTTP; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 14:03:02 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:133359 Archived-At: > The name is the problem. Does it generate an uninexistent name, or have I > write a function to generate the uninexistent name ? The name isn't the problem. You can (make-symbol "foo") a bunch of times, and you'll have a bunch of different symbols. That's what it means for them to be uninterned. Ted