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From: Erik Naggum <nobody@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: list to string etc.
Date: 1996/11/28
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* Olmeda Piero
| I have read the examples of "string to list" procedures and after I have
| found a working procedure for transforming strings to lists. But how can
| I write a procedure with this result (I call it "compress" because this
| is the name in the Lisp I was using before, Cambridge Lisp)?
| >(compress '(a b c d))
| >abcd
| I absolutely need this procedure because (I think) it is not possible to
| use (or at least would it be difficult) lists as property names. I need
| to convert parts of lists into property names.

I think your outlined algorithms look suspicious, but here goes

    (format nil "~{~S~}" <list of symbols>)

another variety is

    (apply #'concatenate 'string (mapcar #'symbol-name <list of symbols>))

#\Erik
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