3.2 Strings

3.2.2 Changes to Common Lisp string operations

The function make-string takes an:element-type keyword argument that specifies the type of the characters in the string. This argument can have one of the following values:

base-character
'character
'(character repertoire)

The default value is the value of the variable*default-character-element-type*.

When'string is specified as the type argument to the functionmake-sequence, the function creates a string whose type is specified by the value of the variable*default-character-element-type*.

The function coerce allows any base string to be coerced into a general string, and allows any general string consisting of base characters to be coerced back into a base string.

International Character Sets - 9 SEP 1996

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