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Minor changes to proposed reader syntax
- To: Common-Lisp at SU-AI
- Subject: Minor changes to proposed reader syntax
- From: Scott E. Fahlman <Fahlman at Cmu-20c>
- Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1982 02:31:00 -0000
I basically agree with MOON on the #" business. I like #* (or whatever)
better than *" for bit-vectors, but oppose KMP's alternative proposal
for the #" syntax. FORMAT is tolerable in its place, but we sure don't
want it to spread. I also oppose the suggestion that #n* be used to
specify a radix for reading the digits of the bit-vector. This is
certain to cause confusion due to the digits being read left to right --
this was all beaten to death once before.
-- Scott