The `namespace-set-variable-value!' function might work. At Fri, 5 Aug 2011 08:59:09 +0100 (BST), Mark Carter wrote: > Is it possible to set an id from a symbol, call it set-symbol? For example, I > might type > (define life -12) > > (set-symbol 'life 42) > life ; => 42 > > The reason I want to do this is so that I can store a cache of variables to > disk. > > The cache will contain a list of variables to be stored. So I might > ultimately > want something like > (define-cache a-cache "mycachefile") > (encache a-cache foo) > (encache a-cache bar baz) > (set! foo 42) > foo ; => 42 > (save-cache a-cache) > which attempts to define the variables foo, bar and baz if they have been > serialized to mycachefile, and leave them as (void) > otherwise.
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