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pricks

Reputation: 371

how to pass a gensym to a function name in common lisp

I'm using Lucerne to build an api, and experimenting with generating those apis based off of a list (they're very simple endpoints). The problem is that the views lucerne uses are just functions, so if I pass (gensym) to the macro at runtime the name of that view function is just set to (gensym) (or it fails, can't remember which).

I'd like to dynamically name a set of those view functions in a macro that will be in a loop of some kind, each time the code that macro has expanded too is run the functions have a new name (so if I just use a standard gensym each time the macro was run each of the functions would always have the same name, and overwrite each other). Is there some way to do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 100

Answers (1)

sds
sds

Reputation: 60014

You probably want to use intern to create "public" symbols (that the users will be calling by name) and make-symbol for "private" symbols (that are stored somewhere).

Upvotes: 1

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