From a535bab55777f92a6373348b79106e57e6b7ef62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Hanson <org/chris-hanson/cph>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 04:05:39 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Implement SYMBOL.

---
 v7/src/runtime/runtime.pkg |  3 ++-
 v7/src/runtime/symbol.scm  | 16 +++++++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/v7/src/runtime/runtime.pkg b/v7/src/runtime/runtime.pkg
index 485b6f6f3..ddc6f5fc1 100644
--- a/v7/src/runtime/runtime.pkg
+++ b/v7/src/runtime/runtime.pkg
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #| -*-Scheme-*-
 
-$Id: runtime.pkg,v 14.489 2004/07/04 05:28:56 cph Exp $
+$Id: runtime.pkg,v 14.490 2004/07/15 04:05:16 cph Exp $
 
 Copyright 1988,1989,1990,1991,1992,1993 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 Copyright 1994,1995,1996,1997,1998,1999 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
@@ -466,6 +466,7 @@ USA.
 	  string-head->symbol
 	  string-tail->symbol
 	  substring->symbol
+	  symbol
 	  symbol->string
 	  symbol-append
 	  symbol-hash
diff --git a/v7/src/runtime/symbol.scm b/v7/src/runtime/symbol.scm
index 0739f7654..6a3240191 100644
--- a/v7/src/runtime/symbol.scm
+++ b/v7/src/runtime/symbol.scm
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #| -*-Scheme-*-
 
-$Id: symbol.scm,v 1.14 2004/01/15 20:59:12 cph Exp $
+$Id: symbol.scm,v 1.15 2004/07/15 04:05:39 cph Exp $
 
 Copyright 1992,1993,2001,2003,2004 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
@@ -75,6 +75,20 @@ USA.
 
 (define (string-tail->symbol string start)
   ((ucode-primitive string->symbol) (string-tail string start)))
+
+(define (symbol . objects)
+  ((ucode-primitive string->symbol)
+   (apply string-append
+	  (map (lambda (object)
+		 (cond ((string? object) object)
+		       ((symbol? object) (symbol-name object))
+		       ((number? object) (number->string object))
+		       ((not object) "")
+		       (else
+			(error:wrong-type-argument object
+						   "symbol component"
+						   'SYMBOL))))
+	       objects))))
 
 (define (intern string)
   (if (string-lower-case? string)
-- 
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