On 2011 May 26, at 11:12, Brandon Allbery wrote:
(Think gensym. Hm, except last time I did anything serious with Lisp, it was Maclisp... does gensym even still exist, or did CL do something inscrutable with it?)
But gensym does seem to be overkill in the case I presented.
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In Lisp terms, I'm looking for make-symbol and intern.
I think I just landed on "inscrutable"; (gensym) used to do pretty much that, it rolled symbols starting from 'a0000 for the first one generated in a given interpreter. (It has occurred to me that I was not entirely clear; the "Mac" in "Maclisp" was MACSYMA. Ancient stuff.)