[Bese-devel] Re: read-from-client-string

[Drew Crampsie]

Marco Baringer wrote:
> afaicr the only places ucw needs to use read-from-string are:
>
> 1) the admin app. 'nuff said.
>
> 2) parsing numbers. we really shouldn't be using the lisp reader for
>    this anyway, what we really want is just a floating point
>    parser. openmcl has ccl::parse-float, i'm sure other lisps have it
>    buryed somewhere. if not we could just cut 'n paste someone's
>    implementation into arnesi (though i'm loath to add more code we
>    have to maintain).
>   
http://www.cliki.net/PARSE-NUMBER ... lets let someone else maintain it? ;)

drewc