+;;;; GENSYM tricks
+
+;;; Automate an idiom often found in macros:
+;;; (LET ((FOO (GENSYM "FOO"))
+;;; (MAX-INDEX (GENSYM "MAX-INDEX-")))
+;;; ...)
+;;;
+;;; "Good notation eliminates thought." -- Eric Siggia
+;;;
+;;; Incidentally, this is essentially the same operator which
+;;; _On Lisp_ calls WITH-GENSYMS.
+(defmacro with-unique-names (symbols &body body)
+ `(let ,(mapcar (lambda (symbol)
+ (let* ((symbol-name (symbol-name symbol))
+ (stem (if (every #'alpha-char-p symbol-name)
+ symbol-name
+ (concatenate 'string symbol-name "-"))))
+ `(,symbol (gensym ,stem))))
+ symbols)
+ ,@body))
+
+;;; Return a list of N gensyms. (This is a common suboperation in
+;;; macros and other code-manipulating code.)
+(declaim (ftype (function (index) list) make-gensym-list))
+(defun make-gensym-list (n)
+ (loop repeat n collect (gensym)))
+\f