Simplified Common Lisp reference

Symbol class: Symbol, Characters, Hash, Structure, Objects and Conversions

Syntax:

Symbol type: function

coerceobjectresult-type => an object

Argument description:

object	an object
result-type	a type specifier

COERCE function converts between different types. See full documentation for conversion description.

(coerce '(a b c) 'vector) => #(A B C)
(coerce #(a b c) 'list) => (A B C)
(coerce 4.4d0 'single-float) => 4.4
(coerce 4.4s0 'double-float) => 4.400000095367432d0
(coerce "x" 'character) => #\x

Function index Full documentation for coerce (HyperSpec)