[Fwd: Re: [Ecls-list] cl_defparameter() question]

[Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll]

Michael O'Connor wrote:

> c_string_to_object() works - thanks! However I
> couldn't get cl_intern() to work, so this works:
>
> cl_defparameter(c_string_to_object("*test-var*"),
>                make_simple_string("test-value"));
>
> But this doesn't:
>
> cl_defparameter(cl_intern(1,
> make_simple_string("*test-var*")),
>                make_simple_string("test-value"));
>
> I'd be curious to know why that is.
>
For the same reason it does not work under Common-Lisp: you have not 
told INTERN in which package it should put the symbol What about this?

cl_defparameter(cl_intern(2,
make_simple_string("*test-var*"),
make_simple_string("MYPACKAGE")),
               make_simple_string("test-value"));

Juanjo
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