[alexandria-devel] Question about FORMAT-SYMBOL

[Orivej Desh]

On 20 June 2011 22:28, Luís Oliveira <luismbo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

Nikodemus Siivola <nikodemus at random-state.net> replied:

> Using W-S-IO-S in FORMAT-SYMBOL sounds reasonable to me.

This has not been done, and is still needed.  In particular, osicat-sys
has (alexandria:format-symbol t "~A-~A" name '#:designator).