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From: sean@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Sean McLinden)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: Implode, explode and Common Lisp
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Date: Sun, 9-Aug-87 23:03:12 EDT
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Posted: Sun Aug  9 23:03:12 1987
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In article <1840@chalmers.UUCP> sundin@chalmers.UUCP (Ulf Sundin) writes:
>I intend to translate a rather large Franz Lisp program
>to Common Lisp. However, some parts of the progeram relies
>heavily on the use of 'implode' and 'explode' for which
>no equivalents are defined in Common Lisp.
>

The functions "implode" and "explode" were needed in Franz because there
was no concept of a "sequence" in Franz Lisp. What you want to do is trivial
if you think of the symbol name of an object as a sequence. Check the
section on Sequences in Steele's book for ideas.

Sean McLinden
Decision Systems Laboratory
University of Pittsburgh