Stephen Leake <[email protected]> writes: > Currently, dvc-gensym is only used in tla-tests.el.
It's used also in the `dvc-capturing-lambda' stuff in dvc-lisp.el. > I gather with-temp-buffer isn't used there because it let-binds a > symbol 'temp-buffer' that might hide a symbol in the user-provided > `forms' argument? That seems unlikely, but it is certainly possible. > Or maybe the tla code was written before with-temp-buffer was > available. I don't remember (one could play with the old GNU Arch archive to see the history of the code, but it's revision 1 in the bzr archive). Google tells me other alternatives: ,----[ http://www.opensubscriber.com/message/[email protected]/11105022.html ] | I think in general, most packages just don't use gensym. You can use | make-symbol or #:foo instead. | | -Miles `---- -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ _______________________________________________ Dvc-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/dvc-dev
