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bug#7146: (make-symbol "") issues
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From: |
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen |
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Subject: |
bug#7146: (make-symbol "") issues |
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Date: |
Thu, 14 Jul 2011 16:25:06 +0200 |
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User-agent: |
Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> I guess we could make intern and make-symbol signal errors for the empty
>> string.
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> No, we should make them write some non-empty representation.
Even though this is obscure, this is a bug that can crash (some builds
of) Emacs. So I rather think this should be fixed. Was any work done
towards adding a printed representation of empty-string symbols?
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