[bknr-devel] Motivation for not interning symbols when loading a store

[Hans Hübner]

On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 20:31, Vladimir Sedach <vsedach at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm genuinely perplexed why the BKNR datastore throws an error when it
> tries to load a store that contains symbols that are not present in a
> given package. Why not just intern them?

I have never seen this as a problem, and it would be easy to change.
Maybe you can send me a patch that I could look at?  I'd like to see
interning on load be controlled by a special variable,
*intern-symbols-on-load*.

-Hans