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Re: Downcase of a symbol
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Downcase of a symbol |
Date: |
Sat, 13 Aug 2016 08:10:33 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Urs Liska <address@hidden> writes:
> I have written a function to return the lowercase version of a symbol
> for use in my library as
>
> % Return the lowercase version of a symbol
> #(define (symbol->lowercase sym)
> (string->symbol
> (string-downcase
> (symbol->string sym))))
>
> Just a small question: this seems so general
Why? What would that be useful for? Normal convention for symbols is
already lowercase.
> that I can't imagine it isn't already available somewhere in Scheme,
> Guile or LilyPond. Of course I'd prefer using an official function
> instead of my own.
>
> Thanks for any pointers
Well, grepping for downcase in LilyPond does not return anything that
would look like a facility of that kind.
--
David Kastrup