> Lisp-2 and GENSYM are attempting to solve the same issue in two different use cases. Now this is… post-hoc, Lisp-2 is the original form of LISP and predates

> Lisp-2 and GENSYM are attempting to solve the same issue in two different use cases. Now this is… post-hoc, Lisp-2 is the original form of LISP and predates the concepts of macros. > And, if I may add, GENSYM looks a bit lazy and half-assed next to the scortch-the-earth multiple namespaces of Lisp-2. I would agree. However in reality we have a system that is half-assed vs a system that nobody likes to use.