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Re: obarray
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: obarray |
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Tue, 17 Dec 2013 12:32:37 -0500 |
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In article <87lhzkp4cx.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se>,
Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:
> Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
>
> > They used a quite exotic name for the symbol so such
> > a collision is unlikely, but strictly speaking, the
> > implementation of dolist is not correct.
>
> I agree, might as well do it fool-proof. If things can
> go wrong, sometime they will.
It's a tradeoff. If you use uninterned symbols, debugging the macro is
harder because you can't easily get the value of the temporaries.
The name they chose is so unlikely that a collision will only happen if
someone is doing it deliberately. We don't worry about such internally
malicious code.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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- Re: obarray, (continued)
- Re: obarray, Barry Margolin, 2013/12/14
- Re: obarray, Michael Heerdegen, 2013/12/14
- Re: obarray, Emanuel Berg, 2013/12/15
- Re: obarray, Barry Margolin, 2013/12/15
- Re: obarray, Emanuel Berg, 2013/12/15
- Re: obarray, Barry Margolin, 2013/12/16
- Re: obarray, Michael Heerdegen, 2013/12/16
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- Re: obarray, Emanuel Berg, 2013/12/16
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- Re: obarray, Emanuel Berg, 2013/12/16
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- Re: obarray, Emanuel Berg, 2013/12/17
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- Re: obarray, Emanuel Berg, 2013/12/15
- Re: obarray, Emanuel Berg, 2013/12/15
- Re: obarray, Michael Heerdegen, 2013/12/15
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- Re: obarray, Barry Margolin, 2013/12/15
- Re: obarray, Emanuel Berg, 2013/12/15
Re: obarray, jack-mac, 2013/12/17