| Date: | Mon Sep 18 08:55:03 1997 | |
| Subject: | Re: @ in Lisp | |
| From: | John Williams | |
| Volume-ID: | 970918.01 |
>Is there any way of stopping @fred from meaning "get the value of the
>POP-11 variable "fred" in Poplog Common Lisp.
>One reasonable solution is
>
>(set-macro-character #\@
> #'(lambda (stream char) (intern "@")))
>
>T'isnt quite right, cos @ won't "stick" to adjacent characters.
The correct way to do this is to use SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR, e.g.
(set-syntax-from-char #\@ #\a)
John.
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