[Openmcl-devel] make-keyword

[Taoufik Dachraoui]

On Oct 22, 2009, at 10:08 AM, Leslie P. Polzer wrote:

>
>
> Taoufik Dachraoui wrote:
>
>> is there a function make-keyword that takes a symbol s as parameter  
>> and
>> returns a keyword k such that (eq (symbol-name s) (symbol-name k))  
>> is T
>
> (defun make-keyword (sym)
>  (intern (symbol-name sym) :keyword))
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I implemented make-keyword using read-from-string, how is this  
compared to using intern?
what are the side-effects when used within the macro definition?


(defmacro defviewclass (sym)
   (let ((kwd (intern (symbol-name sym) :keyword)))
     `(defmacro ,sym (attrs &rest body)
        (let ((a `(, at attrs)))
	 (if (null a)
	     (setf a '(:class ,kwd))
	     (setf (getattr :class a) ,kwd))
	 `(m1 ,a , at body)))))

OR

(defmacro defviewclass (sym)
   (let ((kwd (read-from-string (format nil ":~A" sym))))
     `(defmacro ,sym (attrs &rest body)
        (let ((a `(, at attrs)))
	 (if (null a)
	     (setf a '(:class ,kwd))
	     (setf (getattr :class a) ,kwd))
	 `(m1 ,a , at body)))))


Taoufik