Re: Curious?
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Subject: Re: Curious?
From: Tim Bradshaw <tfb@cley.com>
To: David McClain <dbm@refined-audiometrics.com>
CC: Re: Curious?
On 5 Apr 2012, at 02:34, David McClain wrote:
Every time the Lisp reader sees a #:symbol it creates a fresh uninterned symbol item. So unless I explicitly use the print-circle notation, I will end up shooting myself in the foot.
To be precise you will run into trouble *if* you rely on printing & reading. When the system expands a macro, for instance, as part of evaluation or compilation it doesn't do that, so it doesn't run into these problems.