[cl-who-devel] Exposing String Escape Functions

[Volkan YAZICI]

Edi Weitz <edi at agharta.de> writes:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:13:27 +0300, Volkan YAZICI <yazicivo at ttnet.net.tr> wrote:
> Hmm, I don't think I undertstand that.  Grabbing just the first
> character will usually just give you the ampersand:
>
>   CL-USER 1 > (let ((character-needs-escaping #\>))
>                 (elt
>                  (cl-who:escape-string
>                   (make-string 1 :initial-element character-needs-escaping))
>                  0))
>   #\&
>
> Is that really what you want?

Execuse, that's my fault. I realized the mistake after I pressed C-c
C-c. Here's a small snippet from the real code:

 (write-string
  (cl-who:escape-string (make-string 1 :initial-element c))
   some-output-stream)

   
Regards.