Re: Generating symbols from strings

[Jay Vara]

Paul


> 
> Hi Jay, You don't need to use string->symbol to do this.  
> #abc will return the value of abc (the string IamJustAText), just like 
\abc
> does.


I should have made my question clearer. The string in string->symbol is a 
generated string. I have changed the example program as below to make this 
clearer.

\version "2.18.2"

abc = IamJustAText

xyz = #(string->symbol (string-append "ab" "c"))

#(format #t "1) abc ~a   xyz ~a ~%" abc xyz)

xyz = \abc

#(format #t "2) abc ~a   xyz ~a ~%" abc xyz)