>>> Then evaluate the intern-soft line again. Now the variable is interned.
>> You're confusing variables and symbols.
> Thanks, yes, I should of course have written "symbol is interned". However
> the real question was of course if the same obarray is used for symbols
> created by let variable declarations (did I get everything right now?;-) as
> for symbols created by "defvar" variables. I was surprised by that and a bit
> curious. But not too much, I do not want to dive into the mathematics
> of that.
I rest my case: you're confusing variables and symbols.
Symbols are fundamentally nothing more than hash-consed strings.
Symbols are created by the lexer, not by the evaluator, so insertion into
a big obarray only affects the performance of the lexer/parser.
Stefan
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