From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
Subject: Re: doco gensym and uninterneds
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 23:37:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bruao0rc.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d6eqmyxv.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Thu, 28 Aug 2003 10:02:36 +1000")
Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au> writes:
> * scheme-data.texi (Symbol Primitives): In gensym, cross reference
> uninterned symbols, use @w{} on " g" prefix to avoid any chance of a
> line break obscuring it.
>
> New text:
>
>
> Uniqueness can be guaranteed by instead using uninterned symbols (*note
> Symbol Uninterned::), though they can't be usefully written out and
> read back in.
As I recall when Marius and I talked about this a while back, gensym
hasn't been creating uninterned symbols, but it should be -- this was
a planned fix, and I *think*, but don't have the mail handy, that we
were also thinking of following CL and adding gentemp for unique
symbols.
The screwy names that gensym generates right now were just a quick fix
to try to make it much less likely that we'd cause accidental
collisions until we get a chance to "fix it right".
FWIW
--
Rob Browning
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2003-08-28 0:02 doco gensym and uninterneds Kevin Ryde
2003-08-28 4:37 ` Rob Browning [this message]
2003-08-29 23:40 ` Kevin Ryde
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