bug#18932: [Anand Mohanadoss] symbol printing problem

[Andy Wingo]

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> symbol printing problem
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> Mon, 8 Aug 2016 18:04:45 +0530
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> Hi,
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> We observed the following with guile 2.0.11 -
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> scheme@(guile-user)> (define sym '912828S7912810RS)
> While reading expression:
> ERROR: In procedure string->number: Value out of range: 7912810
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> Is this expected?  Do we need to enable any read-options?  If this is
> expected, it appears that if we are creating symbols from random data, we
> need to do a symbol->string before printing it.  Is this the recommendation
> or should we do something else?
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> Thank you!
> Anand
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