Re: [PATCH] Ghost specifiers

Some time ago, Olivier Galibert wrote... |+ | | With the indexed lrecord implementation, it is quite easy to do. But | I'm not convinced this is what you really want to have: | | (setq bar 10) | 10 | (setq nbar (symbol-name 'bar)) | "bar" | (aset nbar 0 ?x) | ?x | nbar | "xar" | bar | --> Symbol's value as variable is void: bar | | How am I supposed to work on the string which happens to be initially | a symbol name ? I see no "copy-string" or equivalent function. (copy-sequence) is the function you are looking for. So, IMO the correct behavior in your sample would be that aset signals; although if you write (setq nbar (copy-sequence (symbol-name 'bar))) it is ok, as it mangles with a copy of the string. Kirill