Jeff Sandys <·······@juno.com> wrote in message news:<·················@juno.com>...
> Symbols are also called atoms, they are suppose to be immutable.
The set of Lisp types is exhaustively partitioned into atoms and
conses. Everything that is not a cons is an atom. NIL, a number, a
CLOS object, a vector, etc.
> What you are asking to do is alchemy, changing lead to gold.
Think about how these heavy elements originate in the first place.