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  1. CONVERTING CHARACTERS TO SYMBOLS
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  3. >I am still curious if you know of some way (other than (read-from-string 
  4. >(princ-to-string)) to convert
  5. >characters to symbols??? '(#\a #\b #\\) --> (a b \)
  6. >By the way how does ctoa works?
  7.  
  8. (defun ctoa (char)
  9.   (intern (string char)))
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