Re: `intern-symbol' takes string or symbol?

[Marius Vollmer]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:

>  guile> (define o (module-obarray (current-module)))
>  guile> (intern-symbol o "hello")

You should not do this.  Use functions like `module-obarray-ref' and
`module-obarray-set!' instead.

> although this proc is marked "deprecated" (along w/ everything else
> in libguile/symbols-deprecated.[hc]), it should still be fixed.

I don't think so.  What would be the point?  The obarray stuff is
doing strange things anyway, and is not at all related to the usual
notion of `interning symbols', i.e. the job that `string->symbol'
does.