[pro] Learning Lisp the Bump Free Way

[Erik Winkels]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 07:48:50AM -0500, Daniel Weinreb wrote:
>
> Our utility library calls it "strcat".  I think string-concat is
> probaby better.
> 
> Dave Moon established the general ethic on the Lisp machine of using
> longer, clearer names in general.

I generally prefer more descriptive (and hence usually longer) names
but for this specific case I settled on "mkstr" from Paul Graham's "On
Lisp" years ago, because this function is used so often and many times
used inline.