On Wed, 02 Mar 2011 07:48:34 +0100, Kazimir Majorinc said:
reader macro n. 1. a textual notation introduced by dispatch on one or two characters that defines special-purpose syntax for use by the Lisp reader, and that is implemented by a reader macro function. See Section 2.2 (Reader Algorithm). 2. the character or characters that introduce a reader macro[1]; that is, a macro character or the conceptual pairing of a dispatching macro character and the character that follows it. (A reader macro is not a kind of macro.)
I do not understand item 1. In code
... (set-macro-character #\G (lambda(s c) 9.81)) (setf s (* (/ G 2) (* tt tt)))
#\G is the reader-macro in a sense 2. What is the reader-macro in a sense 1.?
There is no difference in that simple case, but consider the standard Sharpsign X case:
#X123 is the reader macro in sense 1 #X is the reader macro in sense 2
I.e. sense 2 describes the characters that the built-in reader algorithm processes and sense 1 contains those characters plus anything that the reader macro function reads.