I'm sorry, my question was based on a four day old memory from the main thread that doesn't reflect what the guide says. It just says don't intern symbols at runtime. Presumably you can pass some kind of a flag to the reader to read lisp data structures without interning the symbols that it reads?
I know the story of ITA well, it and PG's writings are what got me interested in lisp in the first place. Which makes me feel old. But not comp.lang.lisp old, it's all relative!
I know the story of ITA well, it and PG's writings are what got me interested in lisp in the first place. Which makes me feel old. But not comp.lang.lisp old, it's all relative!