From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Alex <agrambot@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>,
27177@debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
Subject: bug#27177: 26.0.50: Macroexpanding cl-loop and friends (make-symbol usage)
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 00:20:51 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva85lah01.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87poekvbuj.fsf@gmail.com> (Alex's message of "Sat, 03 Jun 2017 18:24:36 -0600")
> I've browsed around for a few common loop implementations and they all
> use gensym (CCL uses gentemp) and descriptive naming:
gensym is the indeed what is commonly used in Common-Lisp, whereas
make-symbol is what is commonly used in ELisp.
> I also found a CHICKEN Scheme egg for CL's loop, and it uses gensym (but
> generic names, unfortunately).
Does Scheme have make-symbol or something equivalent?
> If there's a good reason to not use gensym, then that's fine, but if the
> problem is easy enough to work around (perhaps per-expansion counter so
> that it will never realistically hit most-positive-fixnum), then I think
> cl-loop should use it.
I'd prefer to solve it in the printer, but that's just my opinion.
FWIW, I've found print-gensym to be sufficient.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-06 4:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-05-31 23:23 bug#27177: 26.0.50: Macroexpanding cl-loop and friends (make-symbol usage) Alex
2017-05-31 23:51 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-06-01 0:29 ` Alex
2017-06-01 0:52 ` npostavs
2017-06-01 1:01 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-06-01 2:02 ` Alex
2017-06-02 3:27 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-06-02 4:42 ` Alex
2017-06-02 23:09 ` Michael Heerdegen
2017-06-02 23:17 ` npostavs
2017-06-02 23:46 ` Alex
2017-06-03 2:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2017-06-04 0:24 ` Alex
2017-06-06 4:20 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2017-06-06 20:31 ` Alex
2020-08-24 14:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2017-06-01 0:29 ` npostavs
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