Actually, concat with a Maxima symbol returns a Maxima symbol (interned):
concat('list,123) => list123
But usually when users as for functionality like this, they would be better
off using named arrays or simply lists.
-s
On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 16:01, Richard Fateman <fateman at eecs.berkeley.edu>wrote:
> On 1/21/2012 12:51 PM, Adam Majewski wrote:
>
>> How can I convert string to identifier ?
>>
>> I would like to make a few list for draw package :
>> list1, list2 ...
>>
>> for Denominator:1 thru DenominatorMax step 1 do
>> (
>> name:concat("list",string(**Denominator)),
>> /* here I should convert string name to identier */
>> name:Givelist /* my function */
>> );
>>
>> try
> ?intern(concat("list", 123));
>
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