From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Generating an unique symbol in elisp Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:34:22 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291415698 26776 80.91.229.12 (3 Dec 2010 22:34:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 22:34:58 +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 23:34:53 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 1POeDL-0007gM-JE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 23:34:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35722 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1POeDK-0008AC-Ti for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:34:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=33740 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1POeDB-00088u-6F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:34:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1POeD9-0000NM-NI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:34:41 -0500 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:43088) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1POeD9-0000NI-I5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:34:39 -0500 Original-Received: from pastel.home (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id oB3MYM1b002879; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 17:34:23 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 1CE96A8364; Fri, 3 Dec 2010 17:34:22 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Alin Soare's message of "Fri, 3 Dec 2010 23:19:41 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3698=0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:133367 Archived-At: > A very useful function for generating private environments is the > (gensym&optional x) in common lisp. It can replace in some places the > closures. > Does this function already exist in elisp ? I looked in the manual and did > not find it... It's called make-symbol. Stefan