GNU bug report logs - #20087
'gensym' is not guaranteed to return a fresh symbol

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Package: guile;

Reported by: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:16:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #37 received at 20087-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: Mark H Weaver <mhw <at> netris.org>, 20087-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 rain1 <at> openmailbox.org
Subject: Re: bug#20087: gensym
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 18:05:30 +0200

On Thu 23 Jun 2016 16:13, ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Andy Wingo <wingo <at> pobox.com> skribis:
>
>> I just pushed something to master to error when serializing an
>> uninterned symbol.  Otherwise compiling an uninterned symbol effectively
>> interns it!  I am not sure that we can apply such a fix in 2.0 though as
>> who knows, maybe someone is compiling something with symbols made with
>> make-symbol.  WDYT?  If you agree we can close this bug.
>
> That makes sense to me.

Closing then.  Thanks for the review :)

Andy
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