Subject: bug#7146: (make-symbol "") issues

From: David De La Harpe Golden <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 22:41:19 +0100

On 17/07/11 04:16, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> "#:" is the obvious choice for the uninterned representation.
> It already works for printing, but is not understood by the reader.
>

Is it? If you mean just a "#:" on its own it looks a bit odd to me, but 
as usual I'm coming from CL.

> CommonLisp has a |....| syntax for interned symbols which trivially
> allows empty symbols,

That's not just for interned symbols.  #:|| is read as an uninterned 
empty-string named symbol in common lisp, #:|hello world| as an 
uninterned symbol with a space in the name etc.