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From: jeff@aiai.uucp (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Let and Gensym question
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Date: 5 Jul 89 18:36:43 GMT
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In article <11486@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> rpandey@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Rajeev Pandey) writes:
>
>  I have this problem that I encountered while using Kyoto Common Lisp. If I
>  try to use a let and a gensym together like:
>
>	(defun whatever ()
>	   (let ((var (gensym)))
>		:
>		:
>
> I get an error (function var is unbound). I do the same thing in Tek Common 
> Lisp, or Franz Lisp, and I have no problems.........

You'll have to give some more information.  What do you do with
var in the rest of the function?  Does your problem happen only
if the function is compiled?

I don't have any problem when giving a variable a gensym as it's
value (and I do it all the time).  So I suspect there's something
in the rest of the function that's significant.

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