Hi Community,
I try to understand packages and symbols. Is it true, that whenever I write down a symbol name, for example 'mysymbol, this symbol is going to be interned in the current package? And only if I use make-symbol I create an uninterned symbol?
Kind Regards,
Martin Kalbfuß
intern and quoted symbols
Re: intern and quoted symbols
That's pretty much that. However there is another possibility how to make uninterned symbol:
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#:uninterned-symbol
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Re: intern and quoted symbols
Thanks for the clarification.
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Re: intern and quoted symbols
Don't forget GENSYM which is probably the method you want to use (if you want to debug complex macros without tearing your hair out)