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From: kgk@cs.brown.edu
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Subject: Re: GNU Emacs string-to-symbol function ?
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Date: 30 Apr 89 18:01:29 GMT
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In-reply-to: weiner@novavax.UUCP's message of 30 Apr 89 04:34:08 GMT


In article <1256@novavax.UUCP> weiner@novavax.UUCP (Bob Weiner) writes:

   Anyone know if there is a way to convert a string to a symbol-name in
   GNU Emacs Lisp?

What is the distinction between a string and a symbol-name?  I don't
think that it is easy or a good idea to access to the name cell of
symbols; if you mean a function that given a string creates a symbol
whose symbol-name is equal to the string, then

(intern "foo") -> symbol named foo


Keiji Kanazawa
kgk@cs.brown.edu