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Re: Issue: COPY-SYMBOL-PRINT-NAME

To: CL-Cleanup@SAIL.Stanford.EDU
Subject: Re: Issue: COPY-SYMBOL-PRINT-NAME
From: Kent M Pitman <KMP@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 89 12:36 EST
In-reply-to: <8903081610.AA03566@mist.>

I see no reason not to just say it returns a symbol whose name is EQ.

No one is supposed to ever side-effect such strings, so that's not
an issue.

Not saying the result is EQ just encourages paranoid implementors to
copy the string unnecesarily, leading to a loss of space for no good
reason.

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Issue: COPY-SYMBOL-PRINT-NAME
  - From: David A. Moon <Moon@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
- Issue: COPY-SYMBOL-PRINT-NAME
  - From: Eric Benson <eb@lucid.com>

References:
- Re: Issue: COPY-SYMBOL-PRINT-NAME
  - From: Dan L. Pierson <pierson@mist.encore.com>

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