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On 7/22/05, John.Cowan <jcowan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > And if I want to avoid symbol clashes GUIDs should be sufficient. The > > question is > > just how often we need unique symbols (when things can be done with other > > methods). > > Code generation is of course the primary use-case for uninterned symbols. > For this use, GUIDs are too heavyweight to generate and "too unique"; > one typically does not need such strong uniqueness. > Indeed, but if you write them to a file and read them back again (or stringify-modify-symbolify), then the uninternedness may be lost (depending on whether the implementations provides a special, non-standard read-syntax or not). cheers, felix