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Issue: COPY-SYMBOL-PRINT-NAME
- To: KMP@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM
- Subject: Issue: COPY-SYMBOL-PRINT-NAME
- From: Eric Benson <eb@lucid.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Mar 89 09:49:28 PST
- Cc: CL-Cleanup@SAIL.Stanford.EDU
- In-reply-to: Kent M Pitman's message of Wed, 8 Mar 89 12:36 EST <890308123658.5.KMP@BOBOLINK.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
It is suggested in CLtL that an implementation might copy symbol names
into a readonly area. There is a comment in the defintion of
MAKE-SYMBOL saying that (EQ S (SYMBOL-NAME (MAKE-SYMBOL S))) might be
false. I think this proposal just extends that allowance to
COPY-SYMBOL.
Personally, I've never seen a program that *used* COPY-SYMBOL.