Re: Question named-readtables

Steve Haflich <[email protected]> writes:
>   ;; -*- mode: common-lisp; package: user; readtable: :xml -*-
>
> Do you really think that the collision possibility is an important
> issue here?  The mode line examples above show that changing the
> package handling would not easily be back compatible.

I agree with you that the likelihood of collision is small. However,
some folks are developing a similar facility to Allegro's
named-readtables, part of the editor-hints[1] project, and I wondered
why not use symbols and completely remove the possibility of collision.

Regarding backwards compatibility, I was going to suggest pretty much
what Tobias described. Making editor-hints (using symbols naming
readtables, hypothetically) work with Allegro's current named-readtables
sounds doable as well.

Thanks for you reply.


[1] http://common-lisp.net/websvn/listing.php?repname=3Deditor-hints

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