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commit c5fc8f8c5645b3ebd1d38320b524ea8ef2480c77
Author: Julian Graham <address@hidden>
Date:   Wed Jan 26 03:32:48 2011 -0500

    Additional documentation for symbol manipulation functions.
    
    * doc/ref/api-data.texi (Symbol Primitives): Document `symbol',
      `list->symbol', and `symbol-append'.

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Summary of changes:
 doc/ref/api-data.texi |   32 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/ref/api-data.texi b/doc/ref/api-data.texi
index e9d40bf..4835f30 100755
--- a/doc/ref/api-data.texi
+++ b/doc/ref/api-data.texi
@@ -4864,7 +4864,37 @@ strings returned by this procedure.
 
 Most symbols are created by writing them literally in code.  However it
 is also possible to create symbols programmatically using the following
address@hidden>symbol} and @code{string-ci->symbol} procedures:
+procedures:
+
address@hidden {Scheme Procedure} symbol address@hidden
address@hidden symbol
+Return a newly allocated symbol made from the given character arguments.
+
address@hidden
+(symbol #\x #\y #\z) @result{} xyz
address@hidden example
address@hidden deffn
+
address@hidden {Scheme Procedure} list->symbol lst
address@hidden list->symbol
+Return a newly allocated symbol made from a list of characters.
+
address@hidden
+(list->symbol '(#\a #\b #\c)) @result{} abc
address@hidden example
address@hidden deffn
+
address@hidden symbol-append
address@hidden {Scheme Procedure} symbol-append . args
+Return a newly allocated symbol whose characters form the
+concatenation of the given symbols, @var{args}.
+
address@hidden
+(let ((h 'hello))
+  (symbol-append h 'world))
address@hidden helloworld
address@hidden example
address@hidden deffn
 
 @rnindex string->symbol
 @deffn {Scheme Procedure} string->symbol string


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