From: gyliu
Subject: How to define dynamic variable?
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <347A8A88.62F@cs.hku.hk>

Hi, Everybody:
   I want to generate a dynamic variable and assign a value to this
variable at run time with LISP language?
   Could you help me?
   Thanks
   Liu Geyang      
   email: ·····@cs.hku.hk

From: Barry Margolin
Subject: Re: How to define dynamic variable?
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <65icun$k5c@pasilla.bbnplanet.com>

In article <············@cs.hku.hk>, gyliu  <·····@cs.hku.hk> wrote:
>   I want to generate a dynamic variable and assign a value to this
>variable at run time with LISP language?

You can only do this easily with special variables:

(setq sym 'foo)
(setq val 'bar)
(setf (symbol-value sym) val)
foo => BAR

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