No strings? No problems! MacLisp got Implode/Explode! 💥
http://pdp-10.trailing-edge.com/mit_emacs_170_teco_1220/01/info/maclisp-commands.info.html
Implemented these two extremely cursed operators to transform a symbol into a list of numbers and back, on SECD.
https://git.sr.ht/~rabbits/lispkit/tree/master/item/examples/capitalize.lisp