Re: On uninterned symbols

[Michael Livshin]

Martin Grabmueller <address@hidden> writes:

> guile> (define g (gensym))
> guile> g
> #~g0
> guile> (eq? g '#~g0)
> #t
> guile> (define s (gensym "foo bar"))
> guile> s
> #~#{foo\ bar0}#
> guile> (eq? s '#~#{foo bar0}#)
> #t

::blink::

in what way are they uninterned, then?  it seems to me that the reader
still canonicalizes them in some way (else `eq?' wouldn't return #t).
so basically your uninterned symbols just have very funny names.

[ sorry if I'm talking nonsense, I'm not really awake yet. ]

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