Re: Lisp Reader & Tools

On 27 May 2026, at 22:21, David McClain (as dbm at refined-audiometrics dot com) <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> …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.

So wait, hold on.  You are saying that the Lisp reader copes fine, but the *programming environment* does not fully understand the new syntax you've invented? Because it doesn't realise that some characters it thinks are quotes are now not?  And for that reason we must reimplement the reader to be something else?  And doing that would help how, exactly?

I don't know what to say here.

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