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---- "Ludovic Court=C3=A8s" <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:=20
> Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> writes:
> > What exactly happens when you 'define' a symbol?
>=20
> But, just like "`eval' is evil", run-time symbol definition doesn't
> sound right.  Surely, there are other ways that you could use to solve
> your problem more elegantly.

Sebastian,  instead of trying to use Guiles symbol and module namespaces as=
 a hashtable, why not just use a hashtable directly?  ;^)

-Dale