Re: doco gensym and uninterneds

[Rob Browning]

Kevin Ryde <address@hidden> writes:

>         * scheme-data.texi (Symbol Primitives): In gensym, cross reference
>         uninterned symbols, use @w{} on " g" prefix to avoid any chance of a
>         line break obscuring it.
>
> New text:
>
>
> Uniqueness can be guaranteed by instead using uninterned symbols (*note
> Symbol Uninterned::), though they can't be usefully written out and
> read back in.

As I recall when Marius and I talked about this a while back, gensym
hasn't been creating uninterned symbols, but it should be -- this was
a planned fix, and I *think*, but don't have the mail handy, that we
were also thinking of following CL and adding gentemp for unique
symbols.

The screwy names that gensym generates right now were just a quick fix
to try to make it much less likely that we'd cause accidental
collisions until we get a chance to "fix it right".

FWIW

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