On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:03:43 -0800, Tyler Smith <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Sebastian Tennant <sebyte@smolny.plus.com> wrote:
http://weitz.de/cl-who/#syntax
Hope this helps.
Not really, that's the documentation that I'm confused about. It starts out with the statement that strings will be printed verbatim. My variables are strings, but they aren't printed. I understand from Jens' response that I can get the function to work by wrapping my variables in (str ...), but I don't understand why that's necessary. The documentation of str suggests it's not necessary for strings:
A form which is neither a string nor a keyword nor a list beginning with a keyword will be left as is except for the following substitutions:
My variables are already strings:
Your variables are variables (symbols bound to addresses pointing to strings), not strings. --Jeff