On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 3:38 AM, Erik Huelsmann <ehuels@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Alan,
On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 2:03 AM, Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, I liked the idea of the terseness of the dispatch macro. That's all.
What if some user similarly likes it? Can what your propose interfere with a legal use extension?
This would happen in a separate readtable (one which is never bound to *readtable*), which is indeed past any compile-time macro processing. User-defined :load-toplevel switching of readtables will also still be supported.
Thanks. For better or worse, it seems macro processing is *never* gone in lisp, with load-time-value and eval-when's possibly calling (or causing to have called) read, and I've been burned by my own lack of consideration of possible other system use of the reader macros I've defined. -Alan
I guess that is the more technical variant of Tobias' answer.
Bye,
Erik.