Re: Macro expansion: unknown location

[Dmitry Bogatov]

* Mark H Weaver <address@hidden> [2014-06-14 18:45:59-0400]
> > Currently, Guile stores location info using a weak-key hash table, keyed
> > on the datums read from the file.  This means that location info cannot
> > be stored for bare symbols or other immediate values (booleans,
> > characters, small exact integers).
>
> Symbols are not immediate values, so I shouldn't have written "other".
>
> However, because they are interned, they behave like immediates in the
> following sense: 'read' returns the same (by 'eq?') object for any two
> occurrences of a given symbol.  Therefore, there's no way to associate
> source location information with each copy of the same symbol.

Thanks for clarification.

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