On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 18:56 +0000, Neil Jerram wrote: > Linas Vepstas <linasveps...@gmail.com> writes: > > > 2009/12/2 Neil Jerram <n...@ossau.uklinux.net>: > > Neil, > > > > For my own edification -- is tehre any difference between > > > >> (let ((sym (with-input-from-string mything read))) > > > > and > > > > (let ((sym (string->symbol mything))) > > In the case where mything is a string consisting of symbol syntax > characters, no.
In fact, I was somewhat interested that it should be fairly bomb proof to the contents of mything. So I tried Neil's code on various dangerous looking things... I hadn't spotted string->symbol, else I might have got there unaided; I had a hazy idea that that was what I was trying to do. Gradually the mists are clearing - thank you. Richard
