Re: Lisp Reader & Tools

…and also because the Editor and Listener balks when your delimited run of chars contains an isolated or odd number of |, “, or an embedded \ that isn’t being used as an escape.  This speaks to the need for those bizarre comments that have to be inserted at strategic locations to get the listener and editor to allow you to execute or compile a sexpr.

And I’m hardly a purist CompSci person. I am someone that just wants keyboard convenience.

> On May 27, 2026, at 13:29, Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at cley dot com) <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 27 May 2026, at 20:57, David McClain <[email protected]> wrote:
>> That seems a purist Computer Scientist’s argument.
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> 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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