Martin Grabmueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The problem is that I can not imagine a way to safely create unique
> symbols, since the only functions left for creating symbols are
>
> extern SCM scm_mem2symbol (const char*, scm_sizet);
> extern SCM scm_str2symbol (const char*);
>
> which both enter the symbol into the global symbol hash table. So it
> is always possible to create symbols (i.e. with string->symbol) eq? to
> symbols returned by gensym. Can anyone else think of a solution
> here?
one option is to make a new primitive
extern SCM scm_mem2uninterned_symbol (const char*, size_t);
another option is to make a new "unreadable symbol" type and have
`gensym' return those.
[ I have a mild deja vu about this. wasn't it already discussed at
length? if so, what was decided? ]
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