RE: reading a variable from the user

[drain]

strings.el and simple+.el are new to me: thanks. They may contain the answer,
and I need to pick through them carefully, but I'll just be forthright about
what I am trying to do. Very new to Emacs Lisp...

I want to prompt myself with "To:", enter a contact name and a topic, then
pass them as arguments to compose-mail.

This was no problem, but the goal right now is to cut out the redundant
conditional statement, and instead match the name string I enter to its
variable directly, for example "William" to the William variable. Might
require pointers or arrays of some sort, but I haven't gotten that far in
the Emacs Lisp Intro.

Here's what I have:

(defun custom-compose-mail (Contact Topic)
  (interactive "sTo: \nsTopic: ")
  (setq William "xx@xxxxxxxxxxx.org"
        David "xxxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com"
        Jason "xxxxxxxxxx@gmail.com"
        Carl "xxxxxx@gmail.com")
  (cond ((equal Contact "William") (setq Contact William))
        ((equal Contact "David") (setq Contact David))
        ((equal Contact "Jason") (setq Contact Jason))
        ((equal Contact "Carl") (setq Contact Carl)))
  (compose-mail Contact Topic)
  (end-of-buffer)
  (newline))




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