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Re: Release 1.6 critical TODO items.
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Neil Jerram |
Subject: |
Re: Release 1.6 critical TODO items. |
Date: |
29 Jan 2002 23:16:29 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 |
>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Grabmueller <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Neil Jerram <address@hidden>
>>
>> Why do gensym symbols need a re-readable print syntax anyway? [...]
Martin> They should be re-readable because gensym is often used by
Martin> macro-expanders when alpha-converting. IIRC, (ice-9 syncase) does
Martin> exactly that when generating the preprocessed version of the macro
Martin> expander in psyntax.pp.
Ah, I see. Thanks. So if we changed gensym now to produce symbols
that print unreadably, we'd break (ice-9 syncase). That sounds pretty
bad.
Neil
- Release 1.6 critical TODO items., Rob Browning, 2002/01/25
- Re: Release 1.6 critical TODO items., Martin Grabmueller, 2002/01/29
- Re: Release 1.6 critical TODO items., Rob Browning, 2002/01/29
- Re: Release 1.6 critical TODO items., Rob Browning, 2002/01/29
- Re: Release 1.6 critical TODO items., Marius Vollmer, 2002/01/29
- Re: Release 1.6 critical TODO items., Rob Browning, 2002/01/29
- Re: Release 1.6 critical TODO items., Marius Vollmer, 2002/01/29
- Re: Release 1.6 critical TODO items., Rob Browning, 2002/01/29
- Re: Release 1.6 critical TODO items., Rob Browning, 2002/01/29
- Re: Release 1.6 critical TODO items., Marius Vollmer, 2002/01/30