Generating an unique symbol in elisp

[Alin Soare]

A very useful function for generating private environments is the (gensym&optional x) in common lisp. It can replace in some places the closures.


In Clisp it is defined in C something like this:

char*
gensym (char *x)
{
 static int x;
 char a[100];
 snprintf(a, 100, "%s%d", x? x:"G",  x++);
 return strdup (a);
}

Does this function already exist in elisp ? I looked in the manual and did not find it...


Alin


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