Re: ((eval (string->symbol "foo")) ...)

[Jim White <jim at pagesmiths dot com>]

The "right" way would depend on your application.  Kawa has a variety of 
string handling functions.

http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/Ports.html

And as Luis discusses, environments play a role here if you're compiling 
your code.

http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/Eval-and-Environments.html

Perhaps you're wanting an alist or hashmap?

(define (f1 a) (+ a 1))
(define (f2 a) (+ a 2))
(define foo (list (cons "hey" f1) (cons "bar" f2)))
((cdr (assoc "bar" foo)) 4)

=> 6

For big alists:
http://www.gnu.org/software/kawa/Hash-tables.html

Jim

Boris Mizhen - wrote:

> Hello List,
>
> what is the right way (other than the one in subj) to call a function
> if I have it's name as a string?
>
> Thanks,
> Boris