Re: Building Emacs overflowed pure space

[Richard Stallman]

    > No it wouldn't.  With my change in the macro, compilation of a single
    > source file, indeed all compilation in a single Emacs session, would
    > use only one symbol for this.

    Well, that's only true if the change in the reader only applies to dolist.
    If it applies more generally, it may conflate distinct symbols used in
    *other* macros.

Perhaps we are thinking of different kinds of change.
What I have in mind would only avoid splitting of one symbol
(as inserted in macro expansions) into multiple symbols
in the process of writing the compiled code into a file and reading it again.
That can't do any harm.