On Thu, Nov 3, 2022 at 9:02 PM John Cowan <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yes, it can.  But then the examples
>
> (codeset-symbol 'errno 1) => EPERM(codeset-number 'errno 'EPERM) => 1
>
> aren't going to work.  The whole idea here is that `errno` is the name of a 
> bidirectionalmapping between symbols and numbers, and it can't be.
>
> I still don't understand.  Can't there be a bidirectional mapping between
symbols and numbers *on each machine*?  The mapping doesn't change from run
to run on the same machine, at least not between reboots.

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