Subject: Re: How to make a string out of a symbol?
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 17:38:31 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <XaydnbgB98l6j27dRVn-sw@speakeasy.net>
Christopher C. Stacy <cstacy@news.dtpq.com> wrote:
+---------------
| I always thought that the string you give intern is your own string 
| that you can do what you want, and SYMBOL-NAME is a string that belongs
| to the system which you're not allowed to copy.
+---------------

Of *course* you're allowed to *copy* it; what you're not allowed to
do it modify it. (And copying is how you avoid that.)


-Rob

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