Andy Wingo <wi...@pobox.com> skribis: > On Thu 24 Mar 2016 09:45, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > >> Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis: >> >>> It turns out the manual already has the following text in the ‘gensym’ >>> entry, which I think is sufficient. >>> >>> The symbols generated by ‘gensym’ are _likely_ to be unique, since >>> their names begin with a space and it is only otherwise possible to >>> generate such symbols if a programmer goes out of their way to do so. >>> Uniqueness can be guaranteed by instead using uninterned symbols >>> (*noteSymbol Uninterned::), though they can’t be usefully written out >>> and read back in. >>> >>> What do you think? >> >> Oh indeed, I guess I had overlooked that. > > I just pushed something to master to error when serializing an > uninterned symbol. Otherwise compiling an uninterned symbol effectively > interns it! I am not sure that we can apply such a fix in 2.0 though as > who knows, maybe someone is compiling something with symbols made with > make-symbol. WDYT? If you agree we can close this bug.
That makes sense to me. Thanks! Ludo’.
