Re: alist keys: strings or symbols

[Dmitry Alexandrov]

excalamus@tutanota.com wrote:
> The string may also have characters illegal for use as a symbol.

Namely?

> Here's what happens with illegal symbol characters in the string.
>
> #+begin_src emacs-lisp :results verbatim :session exc
> (setq exc-bad-meta-data
>   (concat
>    "#+THE TITLE: Test post\n"
>    "#+AUTHOR: Excalamus\n"
>    "#+DATE: 2020-07-17\n"
>    "#+POST TAGS: blogging tests\n"
>    "\n"))
>
> (setq exc-alist-i-bad (exc-parse-org-meta-data-intern exc-bad-meta-data))
> exc-alist-i-bad
> #+end_src
>
> #+RESULTS:
> : ((AUTHOR . "Excalamus") (DATE . "2020-07-17"))
>
> How are situations like these best handled?

You mean space?  Space perfectly valid character for a symbol.

I suppose, the result above is due to space being invalid character for 
org-mode metadata. ;-)

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