> On Dec 19, 2014, at 10:38 PM, Alexej Magura <agm2...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In Common Lisp, clisp specifically, you can test whether a symbol has been 
> bound, that is interned, or not using boundp; is there a way to do this in 
> Chicken?
> 
> (boundp 'a) ; nil
> (defvar a 1)
> (boundp 'a) ; t
> 
> I wrote up a function once a while back that used exception handling to check 
> if a symbol had been defined, but if there's already an egg that provides 
> this support or if it's built-in, I wanted to know so that I wouldn't have to 
> bother trying to rewrite said function.

Look at the symbol-utils egg unbound-value unbound-value? unbound?

#;1> (use symbol-utils)
#;2>  (unbound? 'foo)
#t
#;3> (unbound? '+)
#f

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