Subject: Re: Help!
From: rpw3@rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 1997/01/22
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <5c4b0b$gd@tokyo.engr.sgi.com>

Afzal Upal <upal@cs.ualberta.ca> wrote:
+---------------
| I'm working in a package in kcl and I need to add character ? to a list
| so I use cons to do it i.e., I have something like this
|	(cons '? list)
| but what I actually end up having in the list is <package>?
| i.e., with package-name concatenated to the character ?
+---------------

As others have pointed out, what you're cons'ing into the list is
a symbol (which comes with a package name), not a character at all.
Try this:

	(cons #\? list)


-Rob

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