Re: [alexandria-devel] Question about FORMAT-SYMBOL

On 20 June 2011 22:28, Luís Oliveira luismbo@gmail.com wrote:

We just came across an issue on #quicklisp where a user had set his *PRINT-CASE* to :DOWNCASE and that caused FORMAT-SYMBOL to intern lower-case symbols, thus breaking the idiom I described.

Should fix my code to use SYMBOLICATE instead or should FORMAT-SYMBOL use WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX?

Any opinions?

Nikodemus Siivola nikodemus@random-state.net replied:

Using W-S-IO-S in FORMAT-SYMBOL sounds reasonable to me.

This has not been done, and is still needed. In particular, osicat-sys has (alexandria:format-symbol t "~A-~A" name '#:designator).