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(make-symbol "") issues

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Message #41 received at 7146 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 7146 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7146: (make-symbol "") issues
Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 19:48:51 -0400

On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com> wrote:
> MON KEY <monkey <at> sandpframing.com> writes:
>
>> So, IIUC is the rationale for doing this is that there aren't really
>> any particularly good reasons to intern the empty string given that
>> the reader is incapable of reading it correctly?
>

> The only reason is that it can lead to a crash.

So the potential for a crashed Emacs is rationale enough, whereas
potential for an inexplicably hung and thoroughly corrupted Emacs is
just grist for the mill?

>  There are plenty of
> reasons to shoot yourself in the foot in Lisp in you're determined to do

And a good deal of these apply equally even for the undetermined and
un-intentioned, not to mention the ill-intentioned.

> so; it's not profitable to address them unless a real world problem
> surfaces.
>

OK.

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/s_P\

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