[pro] Is gensym used for anything except alpha-conversion in macros?

[Kazimir Majorinc]

On 11.7.2011. 15:04, Ken Tilton wrote:

> On 7/10/2011 4:40 AM, Kazimir Majorinc wrote:
>> Is gensym used for anything except alpha-conversion in macros?
> I like to link them using properties 'parent and 'kids to form a
> lightweight tree, then hang other properties of each gensym/node to form
> a dag/database to support interesting algorithms.

That's exactly kind of use I'm interested in. What's advantage over 
using lists for trees?

Do you have some code to share?