CE <hpalace@hpalace.com> wrote:
+---------------
| Barry Margolin wrote:
| >rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) wrote:
| >> Why READ-FROM-STRING and not simply INTERN?
| > 
| > Because if you use INTERN you need to do the right thing regarding 
| > mapping case, whereas READ-FROM-STRING will handle it automatically.
| 
| You can get both!  Use format:  (intern (format nil "~S-~S" :foo :bar))
+---------------

I suggested basically the same thing in another branch of the reply tree,
namely:

    (intern (concatenate 'string (symbol-name x) (symbol-name :bar)))


-Rob

p.s. Or for a very slight performance gain:

    (intern (concatenate 'string (symbol-name x)
				 (load-time-value (symbol-name :bar))))

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