On 7/31/2011 8:32 PM, Matthew Mondor wrote:
it's unlikely that user code would expect to have to use a lock to
avoid its internal race conditions around*GENSYM-COUNTER*. So
Comments:
the counter is used *only* for the purpose of *naming* the gensyms.
the counter has nothing to with the uniqueness of symbol objects
generated by gensym
the counter does help with symbol names to look distinct but that is not
a requirement
all of the above are general observations and are not specific to ecl
(based on my knowldeg of CL which you should take with a grain of salt)
having said the above, I do not know what the desired behavior is in
multi-threaded situation.
Obviously unique names would be nice, but that shouldn't be needed for
a program.
If you already know this please ignore.
-Antony
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