Re: Probably easy lisp question

On Friday, May 9, 2003, at 12:00 America/New_York, Edward O'Connor 
wrote:

>> I want to convert a number into a string.
>>
>> (defun makestrvar (x)
>>  .....
>> )
>>
>> should evalutate to
>>
>> (makestrvar 3) -> "var3"
>> (makestrvar 1000) -> "var1000"
>
> Have you tried using FORMAT? (format t "var~d" x) should do what you
> want.
>

That will NOT work as it will print a string to *STANDARD-OUTPUT*, not 
generate a string as a value.  You want

	(defun make-string-var (n) (format NIL "var~D"))


Yet, from the OP's question this may also be a job for GENSYM or 
GENTEMP.

Cheers

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