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From: piet@ruuinf.UUCP (Piet van Oostrum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: Re: query 'bout defstruct (Common LISP)
Message-ID: <441@ruuinf.UUCP>
Date: 17 May 88 13:15:31 GMT
References: <10834@cgl.ucsf.EDU>
Organization: Univ of Utrecht, Dept of CS
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In-reply-to: yee@cgl.ucsf.edu's message of 30 Apr 88 00:21:27 GMT
Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.47.9 of Mon Mar 21 1988 on ruuinf (hcx/ux)

Say you have a symbol piecename where you remember the generated symbol:
	(setq piecename (gentemp))
The you can assign a value to the new symbol with
	(set piecename value)
set assigns only *special* variables, but a lexical variable wouldn't do
any good, because the symbol isn't in your program text anyway.
-- 
Piet van Oostrum, Dept of Computer Science, University of Utrecht
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