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Ken Tilton  
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 More options Jan 27 2007, 5:55 pm
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: Ken Tilton <kentil...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:55:28 -0500
Local: Sat, Jan 27 2007 5:55 pm
Subject: Re: Integer to Character conversion

Bob Felts wrote:
> Kaz Kylheku <kkylh...@gmail.com> wrote:

>>On Jan 27, 1:08 pm, w...@stablecross.com (Bob Felts) wrote:

>>>Is there an easy solution or am I going to have to do some actual work?

>>Are you looking for CODE-CHAR?

> Yes.  And now I feel stupid.  I did a Google search on "lisp integer
> character conversion" and didn't see anything.  I did try to find it
> before asking.

Did you try (apropos "CHAR")? Granted, you have to know enough not to do
it on "CHARACTER"), and the output would be voluminous. The groovy ACL
apropos dialogue lets me specify exported symbols for functions of just
CL, and that knocks it down to a couple dozen. If you are not blessed
with access to ACL on win32 or Wilson rackets or Nike tennis outfits*,
there is always the "character dictionary" of the hyperspec:

   http://www.lisp.org/HyperSpec/Body/sec_the_chara_s_dictionary.html

ken

* Serena Williams used her championship speech to shill both. After the
way she looked destroying Sharapova, no one was going to try to stop her. k

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