From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: Mortimer Cladwell <mbcladwell@gmail.com>
Cc: guile-user@gnu.org
Subject: Re: intern a top level variable
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 16:08:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZNzYRDM+bdLsKx2p@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOcxjM4zekOeYmW6+oRxUET61dh0TBVJ4H4sc7cQt_OrrtVprA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 08:41:18AM -0400, Mortimer Cladwell wrote:
> Hi,
> How do I intern a top level variable?
You don't intern variables, you intern symbols (now I guess you
know that, but then: what are you trying to do?)
> looks like intern-symbol is
> deprecated? Is there a substitute? gensym does not seem to be it:
gensym evaluates to an already interned symbol:
(symbol-interned? (gensym "foo"))
=> #t
>
> scheme@(guile-user)> (gensym "abc")
> $11 = abc2652
... abc2652 would be an interned symbol here.
> scheme@(guile-user)> abc2652
> ;;; <unknown-location>: warning: possibly unbound variable `abc2652'
> ERROR: In procedure module-lookup: Unbound variable: abc2652
...but it is unbound (i.e. there is no value associated with it). For
this you would have to
(define abc2652 "foo")
or something similar.
Cheers
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t
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