using (in-readtable) to select a readtable
73budden .
budden73 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 15 22:20:33 UTC 2015
Hi!
I thought a bit about this.
*readtable-alist* is just a kludge. First of all, it violates CL
standard: in-package changes readtable implicitly.
The main problem of the approach is non-portability. It will work OK
while you're in SLIME, but it won't work in just the same lisp REPL
without SLIME.
It would also work in a bit unexpected manner when you bind
*package* and then call read.
It won't work in other CL environments. So I think *readtable-alist*
is harmful.
I suggested verbose, but correct approach to deal with multiple
readtables vs source files. If my suggestion is accepted, it looks
like *readtable-alist* must be removed from SWANK.
Evidently it is a breaking change and it can cause a trouble for
SLIME users, but
in the long run accepting my approach would be profitable.
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