[pro] #; comments...

[Pascal Costanza]

On 7 May 2012, at 08:27, Pascal Costanza wrote:

> 
> On 7 May 2012, at 00:54, Faré wrote:
> 
>>>> But if you really like this syntax, there is nothing in the ANS that
>>>> would
>>>> preclude a source module from including the necessary read-time
>>>> set-dispatch-macro-char call early in its own source.
>>> 
>>> Module-local syntax would be nice, but there is currently no
>>> editor(Emacs) and ASDF support for that so I won't use it
>>> 
>> 1- Since ASDF 2.019, there is support for :around-compile,
>> that allows you to effectively redefine syntax around a module.
>> Combined with reader-interception, you can portably redefine
>> your syntax to be that of e.g. python, or whatever you fancy.
>> You know where to find emacs modes.
> 
> This seems to suggest that this only works for compiled code. What about interpreted code?
> 
>> 2- Since well before that, there is named-readtables.
>> I recommend you make your #; syntax available as a named readtable.
>> 
>> 3- You can always define a new subclass of cl-source-file,
>> that gets compiled within proper syntax redefinition.
> 
> 
> Yes, there are a lot of ways to implement this. But that's my primary interest (the implementation is trivial).


Pressed the send button too fast: That's _not_ my primary interest…


Pascal

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