Vocabulary
alien.strings

Inputs and outputs

str/seq	a string or a sequence
alien	an alien

Word description
Converts the string to a format which is a valid symbol name for the Factor VM's compiled code linker. By performing this conversion ahead of time, the image loader can run without allocating memory.

On all platforms, symbols are ASCII strings.

Definition

IN: alien.strings

GENERIC: string>symbol ( str/seq -- alien )

Methods

USING: alien.strings io.encodings.utf8 sequences ;

M: sequence string>symbol [ utf8 string>alien ] map ;

USING: alien.strings io.encodings.utf8 strings ;

M: string string>symbol utf8 string>alien ;