[alexandria-devel] concatenate-symbol

[Luís Oliveira]

On 11/20/06, Nikodemus Siivola <nikodemus at random-state.net> wrote:
>   (concatenate-symbol pkg "FOO-" (incf *my-counter* i) "-DING-" i "-" tail)
> would be preferable to
>   (format-symbol pkg "FOO-~D-DING-~D-~A" (incf *my-counter* i) i tail)

FWIW, in my limited experience, I prefer concatenate-symbol (though
I've grown fond of SBCL's name symbolicate :)) because I can more
easily cater to the so-called "modern" lisps:

  (symbolicate '#:foo- (incf *my-counter* i) '#:-ding- i "-" tail)

With format-symbol, the control string would only add noise.

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Luís Oliveira
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