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New built-in package Strikes Back.
- To: Fahlman at CMU-CS-C
- Subject: New built-in package Strikes Back.
- From: Marc LeBrun <MLB at SPA-Nimbus>
- Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1983 18:38:00 -0000
- Cc: moon%scrc-tenex at mit-mc, Common-Lisp at su-ai
- In-reply-to: The message of 12 Jun 83 19:29-PDT from Scott E. Fahlman <Fahlman at CMU-CS-C>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 1983 22:29 EDT
From: Scott E. Fahlman <Fahlman@CMU-CS-C>
Date: Sunday, 12 June 1983 21:23-EDT
From: MOON at SCRC-TENEX
Well, that's what I get for listening to Fahlman! Keywords
now print out as "||:foo". Fixed momentarily...
I propose that henceforth all silly lisp code be interned in a package
named "(-". Symbols in this package would print as \(-:foo.
-- Scott
The Common Lisp hack of making keywords evaluate to themselves is just an evil
idea whose only purpose is to save typing one character. The package name
string for keywords shouldn't be "" but "'". Keywords would look like ':foo
just as now. Old souces are compatible, and it has precedent in Steele's ASET'.
It creates some interesting issues for READ, but not insurmountable ones.
(Every time I want to see Benson turn green as Yoda I tell him this.)