From f956a50a4c864d808736bfaf5130c0a201e9c545 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MaximeBarniaudy <maxime.barniaudy@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 May 2024 14:36:42 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] Add an intern primitive for symbol creation

---
 minproto.leg | 17 +++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+)

diff --git a/minproto.leg b/minproto.leg
index ecae709..94c0480 100644
--- a/minproto.leg
+++ b/minproto.leg
@@ -3201,6 +3201,22 @@ oop prim___eval__(oop func, oop self, oop args, oop env)
     return self;
 }
 
+oop prim_intern(oop func, oop self, oop args, oop env)
+{
+    int argc     = _get(args, Object,isize);
+    oop *indexed = _get(args, Object,indexed);
+    oop result   = nil;
+
+    if (argc != 1) {
+        fatal("intern: invalid number of arguments");
+    }
+    if (getType(indexed[0]) != String) {
+        fatal("intern: argument is not of type String, got %s instead", getTypeName(indexed[0]));
+    }
+
+    return intern(_get(indexed[0], String, value));
+}
+
 oop prim_print(oop func, oop self, oop args, oop env)
 {
     int argc     = _get(args, Object,isize);
@@ -3444,6 +3460,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
     prim(chr        , prim_chr);
     prim(readfile   , prim_readfile);
     prim(exit       , prim_exit);
+    prim(intern     , prim_intern);
 
 # undef prim