Re: Is gentemp or gensym "safe"?

[Rob Browning]

Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:

> My short term plan is like this: understand how the current module
> system hand together, with itself and with symbols.c.  Beat on it
> until the-root-module and the-scm-module lose their special status.
> Clean up symbols.c so that it has nothing to do with the module
> system.  In that process, make gensym produce uninterned symbols.

So presuming I understand the difference between interned and
uninterned, and so this would fix the problem, why not just change
gensym to use (string->obarray-symbol #t "gensymname")?

That seems to DTRT:

  guile> (eq? (string->obarray-symbol #t "foo") 'foo)
  #f

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