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GEN(whatever)
- To: lisp-forum at mit-mc
- Subject: GEN(whatever)
- From: David.Dill at CMU-10A (L170DD60)
- Date: Wed ,2 Sep 81 23:46:00 EDT
If the reason for generating unique pnames is to avoid having the reader
intern symbols that were uninterned before the printer printed them, I
wonder if a better approach would be to have a uninterned symbols marked
in some way by the printer, so that read would know not to intern them.
This could be an extension to the syntax for package names, with a particular
package name meaning that the symbol is not to be interned. Princ could
print the symbol without the "don't intern this" marker.
-David Dill