Re: [Sbcl-help] gensym madness

[Hannah S. <ha...@sc...>]

Hallo!

On Wed, May 26, 2004 at 04:03:24PM +0300, Nikodemus Siivola wrote:
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>Hence, to use uninterned symbols in a macro you need to stuff the symbol
>into a variable and splice it into the expansion. Of course, this means
>that reading back in the printed representation of the macroexpansion
>for evaluation will not work.

Save for setting *print-circle* to t.

>If you need to do that for debugging or some other reason, you cannot use
>uninterned symbols, but may want to investigate GENTEMP instead.

Ugh.

That'd be reason enough for something like this... :-)

(defpackage "MY-CL-USER"
  (:use "CL")
  (:shadow "GENTEMP"))

(in-package "MY-CL-USER")

(defun gentemp (&rest args)
  (error "gentemp is bad"))

>[...]

Kind regards,

Hannah.