[cdr-discuss] [RfC] WITH-READTABLE-ITERATOR

Ariel Badichi abadichi at bezeqint.net
Sat Nov 1 13:50:49 UTC 2008


"Tobias C. Rittweiler" <tcr at freebits.de>
writes:

>> The variable MACRO-CHAR-TYPES controls which macro characters are
>> returned:
>> `:macro-char' All macro characters in READTABLE that are _not_
>> dispatch macro characters.
>> `:dispatch-macro-char' All dispatch macro characters in READTABLE.
>
> I'm not perfectly happy with these names. Especially the first one is
> somewhat misleading. But I don't think I'd be happy with
> :NON-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR either.
>

What about using :DISPATCH and :NON-DISPATCH?  The absence of a
-MACRO-CHAR(S) suffix is analogous to the absence of a -SYMBOL(S)
suffix in symbol-types accepted by WITH-PACKAGE-ITERATOR.

Ariel





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