[dtrace-discuss] whatfor.d -- where's null pointer?

[Adam Leventhal]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 01:54:16PM -0500, Nicolas Williams wrote:
> In the world of LISP macros the macro writer would gensym a local
> variable (probe-local in this case) to deal with this sort of issue.
> 
> Perhaps the DTrace translator facility needs a probe-local gensym
> feature.

Indeed, many languages have a construct to let you create a new scope; adding
one to D might be a good idea.

Adam

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