Subject: Re: ACL 6.0 Trial Edition ships with non ANSI reader behavior.
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.net>
Date: 2000/11/11
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3182935908719547@naggum.net>

* Tim Bradshaw <tfb@cley.com>
| yes, the point is that readtable-case *doesn't work* in ACL's `modern'
| mode!  If it worked, I'd have no problem.

  To be fair, I posted patches that makes it work, Tim.  The real patch
  is a replacement to set-case-mode that uses the readtable-case instead
  of *force-readtable-case-raw*, but a new value to readtable-case is
  required to retain user knowledge.  I have selected :default, which
  uses the value of *default-readtable-case-raw*, which means you can
  change just one variable to make the _unmodified_ readtables use the
  new setting.  readtable-case can be set to :default, but it always
  returns one of the four predefined values.  All readtables start out
  in :default, so you really get what you ask for if you set its case.

#:Erik
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