A variable that holds a string which may be the name of a variable.

[Richard Shann]

I am stuck on one of those symbol/variable-name-in-a-string things
again:

(define mything "display")
(display (eval-string mything))

that's fine. But can I test that the string in mything is the name of a
variable before doing the eval-string and finding out the hard way? I've
been doing (symbol? mything) etc, and going witless. Do I have to do all
that catch stuff?

The situation is that I can guess (programmatically construct that is)
the name of the variable, but it may not be defined. If it isn't I will
just say so, but if it is I want the string it is defined to hold.

Any help much appreciated!

Richard Shann