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From: | Noam Postavsky |
Subject: | bug#31718: 26.1; Strange behavior of `cond' |
Date: | Sat, 16 Jun 2018 11:23:33 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> writes: > A small problem: gensym does not guarantee that the resulting symbol > is unique so the generated symbol could in theory appear in the input What? gensym is a compiled Lisp function in ‘subr.el’. (gensym &optional PREFIX) Return a new uninterned symbol. ^^^ How could a new symbol have already appeared in the input? (I have no objection to the alternative you used, just wondering why gensym is not also correct)
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