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10 Oct 2024 03:16:34 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Build #86 (user-defined functions)  
From: Invisible
Date: 17 Oct 2008 04:07:00
Message: <48f847a4$1@news.povray.org>
>> - Fixed a very evil bug where calling functions with certain variable 
>> names as arguments would cause bizare malfunctions. (Basically the 
>> variable names used inside the function clashing with the arguments 
>> passed in. This *should* be fixed now...)
> 
> And you wondered why Lisp has that funky "gensym" function.

What is "gensym", and why does Lisp have it?


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