[gambit-list] A small bug report

Dominique Boucher schemeway at sympatico.ca
Thu Dec 9 09:19:09 EST 2004


Eric,
 > I realize its not a symbol. It was the fact that it crashed the system
 > that kind of had me worried. As I said I was just playing around when
 > I came across it. I was planning to use ##symbol-hash in an
 > application, but if its got a chance of causing a segfault then I will
 > avoid it (and all the others that start with ##).

I'm sure there is no problem using them, given that you properly test
the type of the argument yourself before calling them. For example:

(if (symbol? v)
    (##symbol-hash v)
    ...)



Dominique
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