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Re: Addressing confusion over uninterned symbols


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Addressing confusion over uninterned symbols
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2021 19:16:35 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> Are there reasons that macros like macroexp-let2* avoid using gensym?

The reason is/was to avoid cons'ing the corresponding strings (I
recommend `print-gensym` and `print-circle` for the rare cases where
you need to look at the macroexpanded code).

Maybe we should have a variant of `print-gensym` which prints the
symbol's address along with the rest?


        Stefan




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