"Attila Lendvai" attila.lendvai@gmail.com writes:
i've got this ready to be pushed and i suggest this for inclusion and/or discussion:
(defun concatenate-symbol (&rest args) "A DWIM symbol concatenate: Args will be converted to string and be concatenated to form the resulting symbol with one exception: when a package is encountered then it is stored as the target package to use at intern. If there was no package among the args then the symbol-package of the first symbol encountered will be used. If there are neither packages nor symbols among the args then the result will be interned into the current package at the time of calling."
I'd like it better as
(concatenate-symbol package-designator &rest string-designators)
where T as package is equivalent to *package*, and NIL means to create an uninterned symbol, or
(concatenate-symbol package-or-string-designator &rest string-designators)
where the first argument can either be the package to intern in. In any case, having an optional package /somewhere/ among the arguments seems a bit arbitrary.
..but then again, I've been pretty happy with FORMAT-SYMBOL, so maybe my use-cases are different.
Cheers,
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