string to identifier



On 21.01.2012 22:01, Richard Fateman wrote:
> ?intern(concat("list", 123));\
Thanks for the answer.

It gives a symbol :
(%i7) ?intern(concat("list", 123));
(%o7) LIST123

but I can't use it as a name :

(%i6) ?intern(concat("list", 123)):32;
assignment: cannot assign to intern(concat("list",123))
  -- an error. To debug this try: debugmode(true);

Adam