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3 points by cje 5934 days ago | link | parent

Another possibility is to have the bracket's reader-macro stick in a gensym, so

[_ 1 2]

becomes

(fn (_g12) (_g12 1 2))

Of course, until we have real gensyms, this just makes screwing it up a bit harder.



5 points by randallsquared 5934 days ago | link

Arc has gensyms, using uniq. Or am I missing your meaning?

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1 point by cje 5934 days ago | link

Gensyms yes, but they're actually interned symbols of the form "gs231". See arc0/ac.scm:641. "currently rather a joke"

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2 points by randallsquared 5934 days ago | link

That's an implementation detail. ;)

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