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- From: jmrg9881@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jon Reid)
- Subject: Want to prepend colon to symbol
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:47:22 GMT
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- Can anyone think of a way to prepend a colon to a symbol, i.e., convert foo
- to :foo ? I want to use this in a macro.
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- (format nil ":~a" 'foo) yields ":foo", a string. If I could convert this
- string back to a symbol, I'd be a happy camper.
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- Please respond by e-mail as I do not subscribe to this group.
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- -- Jon Reid (j-reid@uiuc.edu)
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