Re: #+,#- etc. (Re: Behaviour of #'directory)

Subject: Re: #+,#- etc. (Re: Behaviour of #'directory)
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 21:01:09 GMT
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3224437278089234@naggum.net>

* Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu>
| PS.  There is one extra thing to note, that may or may not be
| obvious.  The CL reader actually checks the SYMBOL-NAME of the symbols
| in *FEATURES*, so that #+:cmu works exactly like #+cmu in my setup.

  Not so.  The #+ and #- readers bind *package* to the keyword package.
  Using #+:cmu is just plain ugly, and preobably reflects an old bug that
  somebody got hurt running into.

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