I said:
> > Here's an alternative: Couldn't the sweet-expression reader peek for an 
> > initial "#", and if it's there, re-implement *just* # processing?  Then it 
> > could include support for the "comment-tag" for #|...|#, but it'd be 
> > isolated to the sweet-expression level.  That'd isolate it to just the 
> > sweet-expression processing.  Then neoteric-read would only encounter 
> > #|...|# inside a list, where it could recurse without problems.

Alan Manuel Gloria:
> This sounds like a better idea.  The sweet-expression reader already
> does something different when it encounters # at the top-level.

Okay, that's now implemented in the devel branch.  Looks like it works well.  
So let's leave #|...|# semantics as they are.  We'll need to do more code 
simplifications, since that is no longer needed in the lower tiers, and the 
sweet-expression implementation is still clunky, but that can be done in stages.

--- David A. Wheeler

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