This would be incompatible with other common lisps, and make porting to other java enabled lisps in the future a pain. My gut says don't mess with the define reading behavior.
-Alan
On Tuesday, December 22, 2009, Tobias C. Rittweiler tcr@freebits.de wrote:
Alessio Stalla writes:
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Alessio Stalla wrote:
Now jcall can be used with less verbose syntax, for example: (jcall "toString" 4) ==> "4" (jcall "compareTo" 4 5) ==> -1
it would be nice to add (#"methodName" args) a la JSS for even shorter syntax.
FWIW, I do not like the special read syntax. I think, the real solution that ABCL should strive for is
- to implement per-package symbol case sensitivity a la Clisp
See http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/package-case.html
- introduce a package JAVA (with nickname J) where symbols are interned in while preserving case.
Ultimatively, ABCL should strive for making
(funcall j:compareTo 4 5) [read in as (FUNCALL J:|compareTo| 4 5)]
work.
Sounds like a nice project for the free time between the years.
Any takers?
-T.
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