Re: build-lexical-var vs. -Wunused-variable

[Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>]

Hi,

On Thu 23 Feb 2012 04:36, Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:

> Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> writes:
>> On Fri 17 Feb 2012 12:00, ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>>
>>> Commit f9685f437312ea790981373ddc375b2a26ba9c4f changes
>>> ‘build-lexical-var’ like this:
>>>
>>>      (define-syntax-rule (build-lexical-var src id)
>>> -      (gensym (string-append (symbol->string id) " ")))
>>> +      (gensym (string-append (symbol->string id) "-")))
>>>
>>> This breaks a heuristic used in the ‘unused-variable’ pass, which is
>>> that identifiers containing white space are likely introduced by a macro
>>> and can be ignored in unused-variable reports (see ‘gensym?’ in
>>> ‘tree-il/analyze.scm’).
>>>
>>> OK to change it back?
>>
>> How about we use `$' instead?  I understand that's how Chez does it.
>> I'd really rather something that is printable without the #{#} syntax.
>
> Now that we have a (pending) patch to avoid printing gensyms to
> psyntax-pp.scm, does that change your opinion on this?  I tend to agree
> with Ludovic here.  In general, any character that doesn't require the
> #{}# syntax is likely to be used by some programs in their identifier
> names.  It would be a shame if we disabled unused-variable warnings for
> variables whose name contains a '$', or any other standard identifier
> character for that matter.

Is this still a change we should make?

Andy
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