<div dir="ltr">On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 05:41, Jacek Generowicz <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Jacek.Generowicz@cern.ch">Jacek.Generowicz@cern.ch</a>></span> wrote:<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On 2011 May 26, at 11:12, Brandon Allbery wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">(Think gensym. Hm, except last time I did anything serious with Lisp, it was Maclisp... does gensym even still exist, or did CL do something inscrutable with it?)</blockquote>
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But gensym does seem to be overkill in the case I presented.<br>(...) </blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">In Lisp terms, I'm looking for make-symbol and intern.</blockquote>
<div><br></div><div>I think I just landed on "inscrutable"; (gensym) used to do pretty much that, it rolled symbols starting from 'a0000 for the first one generated in a given interpreter. (It has occurred to me that I was not entirely clear; the "Mac" in "Maclisp" was MACSYMA. Ancient stuff.)</div>
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