Re: problems with flet on last emacs

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Tassilo Horn <address@hidden> writes:

> "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>> Two times `x', and those should probably gensyms, anyway...
>>
>> They probably are.
>>
>> Try:
>>
>> (eq 'x (first (first (second (macroexpand '(flet ((foo () 1))
>>                                               (foo)))))))
>> and try:
>>
>> (let ((expansion  (macroexpand '(flet ((foo () 1)) (foo)))))
>>   (eq (first (first  (second expansion)))
>>       (first (second (second expansion)))))
>
> Ok, both are nil, so x and x are different symbols.  cl uses macroexp's
> macro expansion macros at various places, and `macroexp-let2' uses
> (make-symbol "x") to create new symbols.  That's not making it easier to
> understand...

That'd be a "bug" in the emacs lisp printer.


Symbols that are not interned in any package should be printed with the
#: prefix.  eg. in emacs-version "23.4.2", (make-symbol "x") --> #:x

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