Re: How to test if symbol from string exists?

[Gregory Heytings]

> I would like to test if symbol exists. So I am trying this:
>
> (bound-and-true-p (intern "rcd-db-people-mode-map"))
>
> and I get error:
>
> Wrong type argument: symbolp, (intern "rcd-db-people-mode-map")

That's because bound-and-true-p quotes its argument.  You can use another 
macro for that:

(defmacro bound-and-true-symbol-p (name)
  "Return the value of symbol with name NAME if it is bound, else nil."
  `(and (boundp (intern ,name)) (symbol-value (intern ,name))))