4 The COMMON-LISP Package

coerce

Function

Summary

Redefines the standardcoerce function, 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

Thecoerce function still performs those conversions required by the standard, but a larger set of type specifiers is allowed for coercion. Atype-error is signalled if result cannot be returned as the result-type specifies.

See also

concatenate