Re: Converting symbols to procedures?

Norman Gray <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.sisc.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2006 Aug 6 , at 10.08, Warren Henning wrote:

> I want to write some function dispatching code that involves somehow
> converting strings to procedure references. I know about
> string->symbol but I don't see a way of converting symbols to
> procedure references.

One way is to set up an alist of ("string" . procedure) pairs, and so  
do the conversion `by hand' before invoking the procedure you recover.

Rather more flexible is to use EVAL.  There's a discussion of this at  
<http://www.codecomments.com/archive282-2004-12-335622.html> for  
example.

Norman


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