Hello Quizzers,
I'm a newbie in Lisp (have already finished the ANSI Common Lisp book, made
some tries with programming as well, and I'm searching the answer to this
question I have : could it be possible to "enhance" the reader in order to
have in lisp "enhanced strings".
That is : by just doing something once at the beginning of a lisp file (some
call, ...), being able to have all the strings replaced by another string
(or another form).
Something like this :
;;; beginning of file
(enhanced-strings:start)
...
...
(defun some-function (x y)
"This returned string is an enhanced string and the value of x and y will
be replaced 'a la ruby' : x=${x}, y =${y}")
You see what I mean ....
This could be an interesting quiz, but first of all, will an ANSI compliant
implementation let redefine the reader to alter the meaning of strings ?
I know I can add macro characters, play with macro character dispatching
functions, ... but what about "overriding" the reader to intercept strings
and change them, as for the above example, with :
(format t "This returned string is an enhanced string and the value of x and
y will be replaced 'a la ruby' : x=~a, y =~a") x y)
thanks in advance for your answers, both on feasibility and/or complete
answers to this "unofficial" quiz ;-)
And oh, if I definitely bothered you by sending this message on the wrong
list, please let me know what would be the most natural list/newsgroup to
post this message on ?
Thanks in advance,
A lisp beginner,
--
Laurent PETIT
