From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: "'sunway'" <sunwayforever@gmail.com>, <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: how to convert a string to a symbol?
Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 22:54:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <003701c9162e$58cfcd50$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cd62c651-66cc-48a7-8165-5c858386cf33@r15g2000prd.googlegroups.com>
> (setq str "(> 2 1)")
> I want something like: (eval (string-to-symbol str))
(intern str)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-14 5:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-14 4:59 how to convert a string to a symbol? sunway
2008-09-14 5:54 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2008-09-14 6:10 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.19202.1221372658.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-14 7:10 ` sunway
2008-09-14 7:27 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-09-14 8:06 ` Tim X
2008-09-14 8:34 ` sunway
2008-09-14 9:25 ` Joost Diepenmaat
2008-09-14 13:47 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-09-14 7:25 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-09-14 10:19 ` Richard G Riley
2008-09-14 13:43 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-09-15 9:34 ` David Kastrup
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