Symbols

MzScheme provides two ways of generating an uninterned symbol, i.e., a symbol that is not eq?, eqv?, or equal? to any other symbol:

• (string->uninterned-symbol s) is like (string->symbol s), but the resulting symbol is a new uninterned symbol. Calling string->uninterned-symbol twice for the same s returns two distinct symbols.
• (gensym prefix) creates an uninterned symbol with an automatically-generated name. The prefix argument is an optional symbol or string.