On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 08:41:18AM -0400, Mortimer Cladwell wrote: > Hi, > How do I intern a top level variable?
You don't intern variables, you intern symbols (now I guess you know that, but then: what are you trying to do?) > looks like intern-symbol is > deprecated? Is there a substitute? gensym does not seem to be it: gensym evaluates to an already interned symbol: (symbol-interned? (gensym "foo")) => #t > > scheme@(guile-user)> (gensym "abc") > $11 = abc2652 ... abc2652 would be an interned symbol here. > scheme@(guile-user)> abc2652 > ;;; <unknown-location>: warning: possibly unbound variable `abc2652' > ERROR: In procedure module-lookup: Unbound variable: abc2652 ...but it is unbound (i.e. there is no value associated with it). For this you would have to (define abc2652 "foo") or something similar. Cheers -- t
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