Re: [Sbcl-devel] More host's gensyms

[Stas B. <sta...@gm...>]

On Fri, 22 Jan 2021 at 22:53 Manuel Giraud <ma...@le...> wrote:

> Stas Boukarev <sta...@gm...> writes:
>
> > Some time ago I tried shadowing gensym, but it didn’t completely help, as
> > macros are allowed to be expanded multiple times. The only thing that
> > worked was to always use zero. But that obviously is a bad idea.
>
> (sure you did not want this on list?)


Yeah.

>
> And do you think that chasing down leaky gensyms as I am doing could
> help in place of shadowing?


I haven’t actually followed closely the discussion, just an observation.