Re: [alexandria-devel] Add mkstr and simplify of 'symbolicate

2011-10-31 Thread Liam Healy
On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Attila Lendvai attila.lend...@gmail.comwrote: I'm not fond of the name strcat, but come to think of it, I'm not fond of mkstr either -- they're more in a C naming tradition. I don't have a good suggestion for a name though. +1 -- attila I like

Re: [alexandria-devel] Add mkstr and simplify of 'symbolicate

2011-10-29 Thread Nikodemus Siivola
Just to weigh on this quickly: Given that we have PRINC-TO-STRING, PRIN1-TO-STRING, and WRITE-TO-STRING, an N-argument version should probably exist in these variants too, and be named along those lines. Contracted names will not be added to Alexandria, though, unless supported by existing

Re: [alexandria-devel] Add mkstr and simplify of 'symbolicate

2011-01-17 Thread Liam Healy
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 8:58 PM, John Fremlin j...@fremlin.org wrote: Liam Healy l...@healy.washington.dc.us writes: On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Daniel Herring dherr...@tentpost.com wrote: [...] Isn't that the same as (defun mkstr (rest args)  Make a string out of the printed

Re: [alexandria-devel] Add mkstr and simplify of 'symbolicate

2011-01-16 Thread Daniel Herring
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Liam Healy wrote: (defun mkstr (rest args) Make a string out of the printed representations of the arguments. (with-output-to-string (s) (dolist (a args) (princ a s Isn't that the same as (defun mkstr (rest args) Make a string out of the printed

Re: [alexandria-devel] Add mkstr and simplify of 'symbolicate

2011-01-16 Thread John Fremlin
Liam Healy l...@healy.washington.dc.us writes: On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 1:17 AM, Daniel Herring dherr...@tentpost.com wrote: [...] Isn't that the same as (defun mkstr (rest args)  Make a string out of the printed representations of the arguments.  (format nil ~{~A~} args)) ? Is this