[armedbear-devel] Idea to fix ticket 79: identical uninterned symbols coalesced in fasl

Tobias C. Rittweiler tcr at freebits.de
Sun May 2 07:00:29 UTC 2010


Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg at gmail.com>
writes:

>> Well, I liked the idea of the terseness of the dispatch macro. That's all.
>
>
> What if some user similarly likes it? Can what your propose interfere
> with a legal use extension?
>
> -Alan

As it's about the fasl format, user reader macros have long been gone at
that time.

I think the older issue, where using reader tricks caused problems
(which you may be recalling), was that LOAD didn't properly set up the
readtable it used, but the possibly user-modified *readtable* was used.

  -T.





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