Re: [alexandria-devel] Add mkstr and simplify of 'symbolicate

On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Liam Healy wrote:

(defun mkstr (&rest args) "Make a string out of the printed representations of the arguments." (with-output-to-string (s) (dolist (a args) (princ a s))))

Isn't that the same as (defun mkstr (&rest args) "Make a string out of the printed representations of the arguments." (format nil "~{~A~}" args)) ? Is this complicated enough to be a standalone, documented function? - Daniel