Re: Building Emacs overflowed pure space

[Stefan Monnier]

>> If the table that arranges for all references to one symbol within
>> a function to come out as the same symbol is preserved between functions,
>> that ought to do the job.

>> However, this might be inconvenient to do.

>     Indeed: it make conflate two different symbols into one 

> No it wouldn't.  With my change in the macro, compilation of a single
> source file, indeed all compilation in a single Emacs session, would
> use only one symbol for this.

Well, that's only true if the change in the reader only applies to dolist.
If it applies more generally, it may conflate distinct symbols used in
*other* macros.


        Stefan