On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 19:54 -0800, Derick Eddington wrote:
> Note that this is more powerful than readtables where all extensions
> must be prefixed with the # character (which Aziz hates).  With the
> above idea, any non-standard lexical syntax could be used (I think),
> because read can be parsing something which so far looks standard but
> then encounters a non-standard character and delegates to the handler,
> giving it the string (whose last character is the non-standard one) and
> port.  I.e., things like +1 could be read as the symbol equal to 
> (string->symbol "+1")

Damnit, I meant things like 1+ could be read as the symbol equal to
(string->symbol "1+").

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: Derick
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