make-symbol
make-symbol Function
Syntax:
make-symbol name → new-symbol
Arguments and Values:
name—a string.
new-symbol—a fresh, uninterned symbol.
Description:
make-symbol creates and returns a fresh, uninterned symbol whose name is the given name. The new-symbol is neither bound nor fbound and has a null property list.
It is implementation-dependent whether the string that becomes the new-symbol’s name is the given name or a copy of it. Once a string has been given as the name argument to make-symbol, the consequences are undefined if a subsequent attempt is made to alter that string.
Examples:
(setq temp-string "temp") → "temp"
(setq temp-symbol (make-symbol temp-string)) → #:|temp|
(symbol-name temp-symbol) → "temp"
(eq (symbol-name temp-symbol) temp-string) → implementation-dependent
(find-symbol "temp") → NIL, NIL
(eq (make-symbol temp-string) (make-symbol temp-string)) → false
Exceptional Situations:
Should signal an error of type type-error if name is not a string.
See Also:
copy-symbolNotes:
No attempt is made by make-symbol to convert the case of the name to uppercase. The only case conversion which ever occurs for symbols is done by the Lisp reader . The program interface to symbol creation retains case, and the program interface to interning symbols is case-sensitive.
copy-symbolExpanded Reference: make-symbol
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