Re: How to find a procedure given a symbol or string

Subject: Re: How to find a procedure given a symbol or string
From: Brandon Ibach <bibach@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 09:50:43 -0500
Quoting dmahler@xxxxxxxxxx <dmahler@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> If DSSSL does not reify the symbol table,
> then  one must explicitly maintain
> the association between the relevant procedures
> and their names.
> 
   That's just it.  We don't need a full (eval) to do this.  We'd just
need something like (assoc) that does its lookup against the current
bindings.  So:  ((assoc-sym '+) 3 5)  =>  8

-Brandon :)


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