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Message from discussion Wish list item: , in integers made readable
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Tim Bradshaw  
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 More options May 31 2000, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: Tim Bradshaw <t...@cley.com>
Date: 2000/05/31
Subject: Re: Wish list item: , in integers made readable
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* Erann Gat wrote:
> Can't you achieve this behavior with an *evalhook* function that walks
> the form to be evaluated and replaces symbols with numbers as you want?
> It's not as clean as a reader mod, but it would seem to provide the
> behavior you want without having to resort to non-standard extensions.

No, because a symbol could have an all-numeric name, or a name with a
comma in, or anything generally.  You have to do it at read-time as
far as I can see.

--tim


 
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