21 Nov
2009
21 Nov
'09
1:17 a.m.
(defun coerce-name (name) (typecase name (component (component-name name)) (symbol (string-downcase (symbol-name name))) (string name) (t (sysdef-error "~@<invalid component designator ~A~@:>" name))))
I first thought this was some bad kludge to support modern-mode. But vc-annotate told me that was introduced by Nikodemus.
What is the reason that symbols are downcased but strings not?
It makes
(FIND-SYSTEM :FOO)
be different from
(FIND-SYMBOL (SYMBOL-NAME :FOO))
which is just weird.
-T.