[alexandria-devel] Question about FORMAT-SYMBOL

[Luís Oliveira]

Hello,

I often try to support Allegro's modern mode by doing things like
(format-symbol t "~A-~A" :foo :bar).

We just came across an issue on #quicklisp where a user had set his
*PRINT-CASE* to :DOWNCASE and that caused FORMAT-SYMBOL to intern
lower-case symbols, thus breaking the idiom I described.

Should fix my code to use SYMBOLICATE instead or should FORMAT-SYMBOL
use WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX?

Any opinions?

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Luís Oliveira
http://r42.eu/~luis