Re: [pro] Generated symbols

2011-07-04 Thread Daniel Weinreb
And if you ever wondered why CLOS makes you spell out the names of readers and accessors, this is why. CLOS does not want to make any assumptions about how you want to make decisions about what packages things are in. It's the "right thing" rather than the "worse is better" way, with all the usual

Re: [pro] Generated symbols

2011-07-03 Thread Pascal J. Bourguignon
Kazimir Majorinc writes: > I need comprehensive review of use of generated symbols (make-symbol, > copy-symbol, gensym... ) in CL. The books I have (both Grahams, > Siebel, barely mention these operators, except for use of gensym in > macros. > > What are other typical or interesting uses of thes