Re: Release 1.6 critical TODO items.

[Marius Vollmer]

Martin Grabmueller <address@hidden> writes:

> > What about using a special hash value to identify uninterned symbols?
> > This would be needed when printing them, for example, and it will be
> > faster than looking them up in 'symbols'.
> 
> Why do we need to look up the symbol?  The print name is stored in the
> symbol, right?

We would need to check whether the symbol is in the symbol hash table
or not.  I think there should be some way to discover this without
consulting the hash table.