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From: | Chong Yidong |
Subject: | bug#7146: (make-symbol "") issues |
Date: | Sun, 03 Oct 2010 14:56:53 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
MON KEY <monkey@sandpframing.com> writes: > So, IIUC is the rationale for doing this is that there aren't really > any particularly good reasons to intern the empty string given that > the reader is incapable of reading it correctly? The only reason is that it can lead to a crash. There are plenty of reasons to shoot yourself in the foot in Lisp in you're determined to do so; it's not profitable to address them unless a real world problem surfaces.
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