On Thu 24 Mar 2016 09:45, l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis: > >> It turns out the manual already has the following text in the ‘gensym’ >> entry, which I think is sufficient. >> >> The symbols generated by ‘gensym’ are _likely_ to be unique, since >> their names begin with a space and it is only otherwise possible to >> generate such symbols if a programmer goes out of their way to do so. >> Uniqueness can be guaranteed by instead using uninterned symbols >> (*noteSymbol Uninterned::), though they can’t be usefully written out >> and read back in. >> >> What do you think? > > Oh indeed, I guess I had overlooked that.
I just pushed something to master to error when serializing an uninterned symbol. Otherwise compiling an uninterned symbol effectively interns it! I am not sure that we can apply such a fix in 2.0 though as who knows, maybe someone is compiling something with symbols made with make-symbol. WDYT? If you agree we can close this bug. Andy
