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From: prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc)
Cc: Bruce Korb <bkorb@veritas.com>, guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How do I really do this?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 09:54:12 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ishbmo2d.fsf@multivac.cwru.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85ad2tkg9j.fsf@ossau.uklinux.net> (Neil Jerram's message of "06 Mar 2004 18:00:08 +0000")

Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net> wrote:
> Bruce Korb <bkorb@veritas.com> writes:
>> OK.  This works:
>>
>>    (define sym-name (value-function))
>>
>> So, why doesn't this:
>>
>>    (define (string->symbol "sym-name") (val-func))
...
> Perhaps you're not trying to redefine it?  In which case, I still
> don't understand what you are trying to do.

I think he was trying to define sym-name, just as in the first case -
as if "define" were a normal procedure.  Of course, make-hash-table is
the way to go.


paul


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-03-11 14:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-03-03 23:52 How do I really do this? Bruce Korb
2004-03-06 12:17 ` Neil Jerram
2004-03-06 17:43   ` Bruce Korb
2004-03-06 18:00     ` Neil Jerram
2004-03-10 21:07       ` Andreas Rottmann
2004-03-10 22:21       ` Carl Witty
2004-03-12 17:18         ` Bruce Korb
2004-03-11 14:54       ` Paul Jarc [this message]
2004-03-06 20:50 ` Mikael Djurfeldt
2004-03-07  1:33   ` Bruce Korb
2004-03-10 23:44   ` Marius Vollmer
2004-03-14  2:54     ` Bruce Korb
2004-03-08  2:27 ` Paul Jarc

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