* Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> [2014-06-14 18:45:59-0400] > > Currently, Guile stores location info using a weak-key hash table, keyed > > on the datums read from the file. This means that location info cannot > > be stored for bare symbols or other immediate values (booleans, > > characters, small exact integers). > > Symbols are not immediate values, so I shouldn't have written "other". > > However, because they are interned, they behave like immediates in the > following sense: 'read' returns the same (by 'eq?') object for any two > occurrences of a given symbol. Therefore, there's no way to associate > source location information with each copy of the same symbol.
Thanks for clarification.
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