Re: [alexandria-devel] symbolicate

2008/6/5 Stelian Ionescu sionescu@common-lisp.net:

that it does the wrong thing on "modern" lisps, in that (format-symbol t "FOO-~A-BAR" 'baz) yields something that prints |FOO-baz-BAR| , while (symbolicate '#:foo 'baz '#:bar) works fine

I'm not sure I care if something works in a non-standard system -- for something as non-standard as Allegro "modern" mode. ...but granted, there are people who may have to care, and they will want to avoid hardcoding strings in FORMAT-SYMBOL if the resulting symbol is a user-visible one.

SYMBOLICATE is good.

Cheers,

-- Nikodemus