JESS: Possible bug: using apply with str-cat inside a function

[Steve Solomon]

If you call apply with str-cat outside of a function, the result is what you would expect: a single string that is the argument strings concatenated.   Jess> (apply str-cat “foo” “ bar” “ baz”) “foo bar baz”   If you declare a function that performs the concatenation on its single multifield argument, the result of the apply inside the function is a string with the original quotes preserved:   Jess> (deffunction test ($?args) (apply str-cat ?args)) TRUE Jess> (test "foo" " bar" " baz") "\"foo\" \" bar\" \" baz\""   To concatenate strings inside a function currently I use a foreach loop:   (bind ?res "") (foreach ?str ?args (bind ?res (str-cat ?res ?str)))   where ?args is the multifield parameter of the function as above.   Bug? Or am I not understanding something?   Thanks,   Steve Solomon Institute for Creative Technologies University of Southern California solomon “at” ict.usc.edu