[alexandria-devel] symbolicate

[Attila Lendvai]

> FWIW, I think FORMAT-SYMBOL is almost always preferable, but I admit
>  SYMBOLICATE is a classic of sorts.

for the record, cffi is full of these:

(symbolicate '#:foo- name '#:-bar)

which looks like this using format-symbol:

(format-symbol t "~A-~A-~A" '#:foo name '#:bar)

which is much more verbose for this kind of task. so, i think they
both have their own places where they are are useful.

-- 
 attila