Re: [Q] Support Unicode escapes in the Lisp reader,
QUERY
Actually, just a couple comments.
>>>> "Aidan" == Aidan Kehoe
<kehoea(a)parhasard.net> writes:
Aidan> I’ve sent an implementation their way. I suspect if not
Aidan> ignored because of the eternal release, it’ll be ignored
Aidan> because of its provenance. Oh well.
They'll take your code as long as (a) you assign the code to them and
(b) if there's any annoying changes that need to be made due to
incompatibilities or rms design changes, you do the work.
> Note that converting the Lisp sources to Unicode can be done in
> 21.5 at any time. (At the price of inventing some syntax to
> signal it, because doing it in the packages is another matter.)
Aidan> ? A coding cookie’s not good enough?
It probably is. I didn't say you'd have to work *hard* at it! But
note that the coding cookies in .elcs are different from those in
sources.
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