From ... From: Erik Naggum Subject: #D Date: 1996/05/20 Message-ID: <3041581537628095@arcana.naggum.no>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 155729110 organization: Naggum Software; +47 2295 0313 newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Scheme has #D for decimal. I have found this useful. a simple way to obtain this in CMUCL follows, but I wonder whether it will find its way into the language, and also why it isn't if it was decided against. (in-package :common-lisp) (defun sharp-D (stream sub-char numarg) (ignore-numarg sub-char numarg) (sharp-r stream sub-char 10)) (set-dispatch-macro-character #\# #\D #'sharp-d)