Re: My thoughts on C# and gaming.

OvermindDL1 wrote:
> I guess I should describe read-macro's quickly to explain how that
> works.  A read-macro in Lisp looks for a token string (usually
> starting with #) where an open parenthesis usually can usually appear.
>  As I recall, most LISP implementations (any that follow the standard)
> match the first two characters after that, but you can match further
> more inside your read-macro.  At that point your read-macro is passed
> the character stream directly, and you match things and build a Lisp
> structure based on the stream input (in other words you build a
> parser).  When you reach the end of the part of the stream that you
> want to parse then you just return the Lisp structure you built, and
> it compiles that structure as code in-place, and parsing happens
> through normal Lisp after that as normal.

Intriguing!  Thanks!


Found a detailed chapter on Lisp read-macros for those interested:

http://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/guest/chap4.html



Regards,

Bill

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