[cl-who-devel] Question about *escape-char-p*

[Edi Weitz]

On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 09:13:41 -0800, "Paul Thirumalai" <paul.thirumalai at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks so much. Undoing the change to *attribute-quote-char* fixed
> the issue.

Good.

> Now I am using (setf *attribute-quote-char* #\") in my own code
> where ever I need to do it.

As this is a global special variable, you shouldn't set its value but
rather bind it (with LET), see for example Peter's chapter about
variables, and the section about dynamic variables in particular:

  http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/variables.html

Cheers,
Edi.