[slime-devel] Re: sbcl sources

[Helmut Eller]

Christophe Rhodes <csr21 at cam.ac.uk> writes:

>             I posted about this on slime-devel a while ago, about
> giving a specified restart for packages that look like sb!foo -- I
> don't remember anything coming of that, though.

Have you a reference to this post?  I haven't seen it.  

Allegro as something called "named readtables" and their ELI
recognizes -*- readtable: <name> -*- at the beginning of files;
expressions originating form such files are read in the specified
readtable.  Such a feature could be useful for people who like to use
strange syntax.

Another, perhaps more convenient, possibility would be to associate
special readtables with certain packages; before reading, we would
check if the package has such a readtable and use it instead of the
current readtable.

Helmut.