Arc Forumnew | comments | leaders | submitlogin
1 point by akkartik 5304 days ago | link | parent

I'm not sure I follow, but the situation hasn't changed since August '09: http://github.com/nex3/arc/commit/47909c72a3e5ea7c4e2173fe61...


3 points by rocketnia 5304 days ago | link

Right, but I wasn't familiar with it. This time, I thank you for pointing it out for me. ^_^

I meant to convey that I'd rather write Arc code so that sentinel values are generated using [] or whatnot, rather than introducing uninterned symbols to the language. Uninterned symbols make it much less of a pain for multiple threads to generate unique variable names, but they introduce complexity in other places. Besides the hypothetical examples I already mentioned, I'm happy I can enter (uniq) symbols at the REPL when I'm debugging.

I don't really expect this opinion to catch on, but I'm throwing it out there just in case.

-----