Re: [slime-devel] buffer readtables

Helmut Eller wrote, On 28/9/09 7:21 AM:

First let me say that I have little sympathy for custom readtables. People who use custom syntax are fighting their tools.

Can you say a little more about this? The only time I've used a custom readtable was when I was implementing a custom non-Lisp language for the application that was purpose-designed for the applications and its users, using a custom readtable and macros to translate the application language into s-expressions and then taking it from there in Lisp. One advantage was that user scripts could be compiled into fasls.

I didn't have a problem with the result, but I would like to hear the arguments for doing it a better way if I ever do something similar in the future.

-- sidney