From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rob Browning Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: doco gensym and uninterneds Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2003 23:37:59 -0500 Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87bruao0rc.fsf@raven.i.defaultvalue.org> References: <87d6eqmyxv.fsf@zip.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1062046863 20536 80.91.224.253 (28 Aug 2003 05:01:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 05:01:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 28 07:01:01 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19sEu5-0005i9-00 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 07:01:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19sErJ-0002wc-2Q for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:58:09 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19sEkb-0004al-HU for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:51:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.22) id 19sEYb-000627-6f for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:38:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [66.93.216.237] (helo=defaultvalue.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.22) id 19sEXp-00053Z-EI for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:38:01 -0400 Original-Received: from raven.i.defaultvalue.org (raven.i.defaultvalue.org [192.168.1.7]) by defaultvalue.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E30003F54 for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 23:37:59 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by raven.i.defaultvalue.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D0EE381145; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 23:37:59 -0500 (CDT) Original-To: guile-devel@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87d6eqmyxv.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Thu, 28 Aug 2003 10:02:36 +1000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2728 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.guile.devel:2728 Kevin Ryde 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 rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org; previously @cs.utexas.edu GPG starting 2002-11-03 = 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4 _______________________________________________ Guile-devel mailing list Guile-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/guile-devel