mcna/ironclad — comment on commit 5baab70edbf71bf58f7ae1b629af5daf11033669
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By froydnj:

OK, then, so before, we had:

(intern (format nil "blahblah/UPPERCASE"))

and after your patch we have:

(intern (format nil "blahblah/~A" '#:uppercase))

and after reading your description, my understanding is that both of these forms will wind up interning the symbol with name "blahblah/UPPERCASE". So I don't see what we gain by that transformation, and I don't have an Allegro CL handy to experiment with. Apologies for being dense, but I'd like to understand this so I can avoid problems with Allegro CL's reader in the future.