coerce Function

Summary

Extends the function coerce, allowing it to take any Common Lisp type specifier.

Package

common-lisp

Signature

coerce object result-type => result

Arguments

object⇩	A Lisp object.
result-type⇩	A type specifier.

Values

result⇩

An object of type result-type.

Description

The function coerce performs those conversions on object required by the ANSI Common Lisp standard, but a larger set of type specifiers is allowed for coercion.

A type-error is signaled if result cannot be returned as result-type specifies.

See also

coerce in the Common Lisp HyperSpec
concatenate