Re: Release 1.6 critical TODO items.

[Rob Browning]

Martin Grabmueller <address@hidden> writes:

> Some time ago, I have proposed a simple fix: Provide a function
> scm_mem2uninterned_symbol (sketched below) which is the same as
> `scm_mem2symbol', but does not consult the symbol table before
> creating the symbol (attention, untested...).
>
> SCM
> scm_mem2uninterned_symbol (const char *name, size_t len)

OK, so I added this to symbol.c (do we want it static or public?) and
switched gensym to use it.  However, testing gives some interesting
behaviors:

  $ guile
  guile> (gensym)                 
  %%gensym0
  guile> (eq? '%%gensym1 (gensym))
  #f
  guile> (define foo (gensym))    
  guile> (eq? '%%gensym3 foo)     
  #t
  guile> foo
  %%gensym3
  guile> 

Somehow even just assigning (gensym)'s result to foo interns it.  Is
that expected?

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