Re: Lisp Reader & Tools

"Marco Antoniotti (as marco dot antoniotti at unimib dot it)" <[email protected]> Wed, 27 May 2026 22:32:41 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.lispworks.general
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Because **I** want #D for "decimal numbers" 😏😁

On Wed, May 27, 2026 at 10:30 PM Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at cley dot com) <
[email protected]> wrote:

> On 27 May 2026, at 20:57, David McClain <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > That seems a purist Computer Scientist’s argument.
>
> I just can't understand why, for instance, #D/xxyyzz/ is not OK, where
> 'xxyyzz' is some sequence containing the syntax you are interested in and
> '/' is any character.  I mean, only a purist computer scientist would
> object to the delimiters, surely?
>
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