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Re: obarray


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: obarray
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 18:42:40 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> It's a tradeoff. If you use uninterned symbols,
> debugging the macro is harder because you can't
> easily get the value of the temporaries.

OK.

> The name they chose is so unlikely that a collision
> will only happen if someone is doing it
> deliberately. We don't worry about such internally
> malicious code.

I agree a collision is extremely unlikely but on the
other hand, you do really have to spend time debugging
`dotimes'?

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Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu
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