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Re: Release 1.6 critical TODO items.


From: Marius Vollmer
Subject: Re: Release 1.6 critical TODO items.
Date: 28 Jan 2002 23:16:08 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1

Martin Grabmueller <address@hidden> writes:

> SCM
> scm_mem2uninterned_symbol (const char *name, size_t len)
> {
>   size_t raw_hash = scm_string_hash ((const unsigned char *) name, len);
>   size_t hash = raw_hash % SCM_VECTOR_LENGTH (symbols);
>   {
>     SCM symbol;
>     SCM cell;
> 
>     SCM_NEWCELL2 (symbol);
>     SCM_SET_SYMBOL_CHARS (symbol, scm_must_strndup (name, len));
>     SCM_SET_SYMBOL_HASH (symbol, raw_hash);
>     SCM_SET_PROP_SLOTS (symbol, scm_cons (SCM_BOOL_F, SCM_EOL));
>     SCM_SET_SYMBOL_LENGTH (symbol, (long) len);
> 
>     return symbol;
>   }
> }
> 
> Then this would be used in `scm_gensym' instead of `scm_mem2symbol'.
> Symbols created with would then be unique.

Yes, let's implement this.

What about using a special hash value to identify uninterned symbols?
This would be needed when printing them, for example, and it will be
faster than looking them up in 'symbols'.



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