jwz@spice.cs.cmu.edu (Jamie Zawinski) (02/14/89)
Gee, I didn't think that he might be porting code... Oops. Anyway, I would have just mailed that message to him, but I thought it might be of use to new lispers coming from toy PC lisps or something. But there is a problem with your code: you are destructively modifying a string passed to INTERN/MAKE-SYMBOL. CLtL, page 169, says that's a bad idea; MAKE-SYMBOL does not necessarily copy the string, and might move it to read-only space. - Jamie jwz@spice.cs.cmu.edu sun!sunpitt!eti!jwz --