Re: "cl-case" with strings

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2016-02-05, at 05:05, Emanuel Berg <embe8573@student.uu.se> wrote:

> Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:
>
>>>> Or this idiom: (cl-case (intern string) ...)
>>>
>>> Then the keys cannot be strings - not an issue in
>>> this "case"...
>>
>> Why not? It works fine for me when `string' is
>> a string.
>
> It works for me too but to me it is rather a hack
> than idiomatic.

Well, it was not my idea - I found it somewhere (can't find it right
now).  I'm not sure whether this is a hack or the proper way to do it;
I quite like it personally.

> I'd like the keys to be strings if the (original) data
> is. Then the keys/strings are also properly
> highlighted as strings because that's what they are.

Ah, I see now what you meant.

> Now when I have my defun I don't want to change for
> this, but had I known of this before, perhaps (?)
> I wouldn't have written the defun.

:-)

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Marcin Borkowski
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Adam Mickiewicz University