Re: Allow a symbol argument in intern-soft
Hrvoje Niksic writes:
I think it's useful to allow a symbol argument in intern-soft,
like
unintern allows it.
I *think* this is a bad idea... intern-soft should return nil
if the given string does not correspond to the name of an interned
symbol. Using a symbol argument has the side effect of interning the
symbol if it does not exist, which means that intern-soft will *never*
return nil when passed a symbol.
Example: evaluate the following three forms in the *scratch*
buffer:
(intern-soft "foo2")
nil
(intern-soft 'foo2)
;;; causes an error
(intern-soft "foo2")
foo2
//Raymond.
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