update docs on gensym
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HELP: gensym
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{ $values { "word" word } }
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{ $description "Creates an uninterned word that is not equal to any other word in the system. Gensyms have an automatically-generated name based on a prefix and an incrementing counter." }
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{ $description "Creates an uninterned word that is not equal to any other word in the system." }
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{ $examples { $unchecked-example "gensym ." "G:260561" } }
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{ $notes "Gensyms are often used as placeholder values that have no meaning of their own but must be unique. For example, the compiler uses gensyms to label sections of code." } ;
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