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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: Question on converting string to symbol
Date: 2000/06/23
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* "Steven M. Haflich" <haflich@pacbell.net>
| You should consider make-symbol as well, depending on whether you
| want the symbol interned.  All these silly Lisp gurus apparently
| miss something in their internalization of CL language abstractions:
| a symbol is a first-class object separate from its internment in
| packages. (:-)

  Nah, that's the difference between unintern and unimport.

#:Erik
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