re: fromliteral()

• Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 16:10:10 PST
• From:
  Kipp the Kidd <mcmudge@mailbox.syr.edu>
• Cc: moo-cows@parc.xerox.com
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At 03:42 PM 3/13/96 PST, slayer@kaiwan.com wrote:
>At 07:10 AM 3/13/96 PST, ThwartedEfforts wrote:
>>At 12:11 AM 3/13/96 PST, you wrote:
>>>And finally, for completeness sake I suggest a tovalue() or fromliteral()
>>>builtin.  If this is non-trivial I'm willing to wait for someone else to
>>>do this or perhaps attempt it myself, but if not I'd be nice to see it
>>>in 1.8.0.
>>
>>Dude, it's called eval(), and it works just fine:
>>
>>;$no_one:eval_d(toliteral(xxx))[2] == xxx
>>
>>Andy.
>>
>I tried that and got this:
>;$no_one:eval_d(toliteral("{1,2,3}"))[2]
>=> "{1,2,3}"

Um, not quite.  Toliteral accepts a value, and returns a string.  Replace
the whole `toliteral()' bit with the string you want converted to a list.

;$no_one:eval_d("{1,2,3}")[2]
=> "{1,2,3}"

- Kipp
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