Thank you Eric & Pierpaolo. I do, indeed, mean interned symbols, thus, gensym is not what I want. I thought I was just unable to find the Racket function for this, but apparently it really does not exist.
Marco On Jan 15, 2014 2:59 AM, "Pierpaolo Bernardi" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Eric Dobson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I'm not sure what you mean by random, but does gensym do what you want? > > I think Marco means interned. Gensym produces uninterned symbols. > > AFAIK, and checking briefly the manual, there doesn't seem to exists a > single function to do this. > But it is easy to cobble up something. > > (define gensym-intern > (let ((k 0)) > (λ ((base "gensym-")) > (set! k (add1 k)) > (string->symbol (format "~a~a" base k))))) >
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