[cl-who-devel] loop and with-html-output

[Jeffrey Cunningham]

On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 09:03:43 -0800, Tyler Smith  
<tyler.smith at mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Sebastian Tennant
> <sebyte at smolny.plus.com> wrote:
>> http://weitz.de/cl-who/#syntax
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>>
>
> Not really, that's the documentation that I'm confused about. It
> starts out with the statement that strings will be printed verbatim.
> My variables are strings, but they aren't printed. I understand from
> Jens' response that I can get the function to work by wrapping my
> variables in (str ...), but I don't understand why that's necessary.
> The documentation of str suggests it's not necessary for strings:
>
>   A form which is neither a string nor a keyword nor a list beginning
> with a keyword will be left as is except for the following
> substitutions:
>
> My variables are already strings:
>

Your variables are variables (symbols bound to addresses pointing to  
strings), not strings.

--Jeff