Can Common Lisp produce a symbol-name result that isn't converted to uppercase?
(symbol-name 'cCdD)
;; => "CCDD"
(ANOTHER_FUNCTION? 'cCdD)
;; => "cCdD"I want the symbol's name in string form while preserving its letter case.
obtaining symbol-name with original case
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Perrin Permalink The symbol really does have an uppercase name, since the reader has converted it already. To avoid this, change readtable-case or escape your symbol, either by surrounding it with pipes:
'|cCdD|or by escaping each following character with backslash:'\cC\dD.bramble Permalink This question has a fairly detailed explanation: Why does Common Lisp ignore letter case (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7375537/why-is-common-lisp-case-insensitive)
"A readtable object includes the readtable-case attribute, governing the reader's treatment of symbols during interning and evaluation. you may setf the readtable-case value to :upcase(default), or :downcase, :preserve, or :invert.
The default value for readtable-case is :upcase, making the reader uppercase every symbol it encounters."
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