Re: More Common Lisp stuff...

Brian Palmer <[email protected]> writes:
> Lars Brinkhoff <[email protected]> writes:
> > Brian Palmer <[email protected]> writes:
> > > Lars Brinkhoff <[email protected]> writes:
> > > > I'm implementing Common Lisp symbols, packages, streams,
> > > > readtables, and the CL reader in Emacs Lisp.  Anyone else into
> > > > that kind of stuff?
> If you send a message to [email protected], you could get a
> feel from the actual developer community

Ok, CCed.

> Of course, the trouble is that xemacs is committed to emacs
> compatibility, mostly, and so progress would have to be very measured.

No problem.  My code is completely layered above standard Emacs Lisp.

> > > How far along are you?
> > Quite far, I'd say.  I have a basic READ with most macro characters
> > and a token accumulator implemented as per the CL spec.  Tokens are
> > parsed into integers and symbols, but other kinds of numbers aren't
> > recognized yet.
> Ah, ok, so this is like a 'cl-read' function?

Yes.  (It's called 'cl:read'.)

> You considered opening a sourceforge project for this?

I can make it available from a CVS repository if there's interest.

> Are you trying to make this compatible with the emacs reader,also?
> (So, for example, doing ?\ as well as #\Space)?

No, I'm just implementing the standard CL reader and readtable.
However, I don't think it would be hard to add read macros for Emacs
Lisp compatability.

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