GNU bug report logs - #27177
26.0.50: Macroexpanding cl-loop and friends (make-symbol usage)

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alex <agrambot <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 31 May 2017 23:25:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 26.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
To: Alex <agrambot <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>, 27177 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#27177: 26.0.50: Macroexpanding cl-loop and friends (make-symbol usage)
Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2017 19:17:14 -0400

Alex <agrambot <at> gmail.com> writes:

>> AFAICT `print-circle' and `print-gensym' also control how `prin1'
>> prints.
>
> Does print-circle? Consider:
>
> (prin1 `(cons ,(make-symbol "hello")
> 	      ,(make-symbol "hello")))
>
> print-gensym certainly makes a difference in the output, but
> print-circle doesn't seem to.

You're producing 2 different symbols, try

    (let ((sym (make-symbol "hello")))
      (prin1 `(cons ,sym ,sym)))

> However, I don't know how prin1 would keep track of the uninterned
> symbols across many different procedure calls, which it would need to do
> for it to know what is being shared.

It looks like `print-continuous-numbering' and `print-number-table'
might be relevant.
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