Thread: [pure-lang-users] string to symbol

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I'm probably just overlooking it.

 > str k;
 "k"

Now, how do I convert string "k" to symbol k?

e.r.

Eddie Rucker wrote:
> Now, how do I convert string "k" to symbol k?

eval?

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On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 02:23 +0200, Albert Graef wrote:
> Eddie Rucker wrote:
> > Now, how do I convert string "k" to symbol k?
> 
> eval?
> 
Yea.

e.r.

Eddie Rucker wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 02:23 +0200, Albert Graef wrote:
>> Eddie Rucker wrote:
>>> Now, how do I convert string "k" to symbol k?
>> eval?
>>
> Yea.

Is that for the GSL lib? I smell an awful hack there. ;-)

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Dr. Albert Gr"af
Dept. of Music-Informatics, University of Mainz, Germany
Email:  Dr....@t-..., ag...@mu...
WWW:    http://www.musikinformatik.uni-mainz.de/ag

On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 16:54 +0200, Albert Graef wrote:
> Eddie Rucker wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-08-28 at 02:23 +0200, Albert Graef wrote:
> >> Eddie Rucker wrote:
> >>> Now, how do I convert string "k" to symbol k?
> >> eval?
> >>
> > Yea.
> 
> Is that for the GSL lib? I smell an awful hack there. ;-)
> 

Nope, eval is too insecure for something like that.

e.r.