string to identifier

• Subject: string to identifier
• From: Richard Fateman
• Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 15:07:28 -0800

Try
?intern(concat("list",123)) ::  32

which assigns 32 to a symbol that you can type in to Maxima as ?LIST123.


There is a peculiarity of switching upper and lower case for
convoluted reasons.

Note that is "::"  not ":"

RJF

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