intern

(intern string)

Returns the symbol named by string, verbatim (no case folding). rontolisp symbols compare by name — there is no separate intern table — so the result is eq to any symbol with the same name, including quoted literals. Deviations from Common Lisp: the current package is ignored (the name is used exactly as given, so (intern "foo") under any in-package yields the bare symbol foo), a package argument signals an error, and there is no second status value.