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From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: '|a| should print as 'a ?
Date: 1999/10/01
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* Deepak Goel <deego@Glue.umd.edu>
| I am trying to achieve '|<arbitrary>| should print <arbitarry> when it
| contains no spaces or special characters but should print |arbitrary|
| when  there are some special characters (viz, *with* the bars.)

  lowercase letters are special characters when the reader upcases.

#:Erik