<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <TITLE>Message</TITLE> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.19019"></HEAD> <BODY> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=984402423-10032011>Hello! I'm new to Scheme/Racket, and have a quick question.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=984402423-10032011></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=984402423-10032011>Is there any way to assign an arbitrary value to a symbol created with string->symbol?</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=984402423-10032011></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=984402423-10032011>I want to do the equivalent of  </SPAN></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=984402423-10032011>(set! (string-symbol "number3") 3).</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=984402423-10032011></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=984402423-10032011>That is, I want the symbol number3 to evaluate to 3.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=984402423-10032011></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=984402423-10032011>Thanks in advance for advice!</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=984402423-10032011></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=984402423-10032011>- prof</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=984402423-10032011></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=984402423-10032011></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial><SPAN class=984402423-10032011></SPAN></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>