Re: elisp reader: REQUEST
David Bakhash <cadet(a)bu.edu> writes:
Someone mentioned that one of the problems with the (X)Emacs Lisp
reader is that you can't do reader macros (as far as I know).
Specifically, there was mention of how elisp doesnt' recognize this to
be a vector:
#(1 2 3 4 5)
It's trivial to make XEmacs understand this syntax (as simple as
removing an #if 0), but the previous developers chose to not implement
the #() syntax to avoid the confusion with FSF Emacs string
properties. I agree with them.
Having said that, I also agree that it would be very cool to have the
Lisp reader programmable. It doesn't even sound like too much work,
offhand.
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