Re: keywords vs. quoted symbols - Naggum cll archive

Subject: Re: keywords vs. quoted symbols
From: Erik Naggum <cl@naggum.no>
Date: 1998/06/01
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3105725669175400@naggum.no>


* David Bakhash
| so after all this discussion, it's hard to believe that any function
| defined in the `common-lisp' package would want to take a symbol.  For
| example, the function `concatenate':
| 
| (concatenate 'string seq1 seq2)
| 
| Why is this never an issue?

  because in this particular case, COMMON-LISP:STRING names the type of
  object CONCATENATE should build and return.  a keyword would be
  inappropriate in naming types.

#:Erik
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