Re: Well, it had to happen eventually...

> On Apr 28, 2026, at 09:31, Devon Sean McCullough (as LispWorks at jovi dot net) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On 2026-04-28 10:21, David McClain (as dbm at refined-audiometrics dot com) wrote:
>> So, I put it to the expert audience - where would an advice make the most sense on the Lisp reader?
> Almost tempted to allow 1,234.56 but not really.
> 
> For ZetaLisp syntax I defined a state variable
> and advised five internal CCL reader functions,
> when the readtable has my ZetaLisp colon reader.
> In retrospect I wonder if there was a better way.
> 
> 		Peace
> 			--Devon
> 
> P.S.  Any thoughts on format ~:E for "Engineering Notation" output
> where the exponent is always a power of 1000 or is this too awful?
> No doubt ~/ENG/, ~/SI/, etc., are out there somewhere.
> 
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