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

Heh! The guys had me put in the MIT license back in 2018. But the code itself probably dates back to 1994.



> On Apr 28, 2026, at 09:43, David McClain (as dbm at refined-audiometrics dot com) <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On Apr 28, 2026, at 09:31, Devon Sean McCullough (as LispWorks at jovi dot net) <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> 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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