From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc3.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: How to do config files? References: Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3210495003252941@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 12:10:04 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 1001506204 193.71.66.49 (Wed, 26 Sep 2001 14:10:04 MET DST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 14:10:04 MET DST Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:16963 * Dr. Edmund Weitz > I have recently thought about this and have no idea where to > start. Could you provide some quick hints about which direction to > choose? (Attention: newbie alert!) If you are newbie, I think it is instructive to read up on read and readtables and all this and see if you understand enough of what it does to implement your own (simple) reader, skipping some things on purpose. You may find that the full generality of the reader is harder to harness than writing an optimized little thing that knows about the things you want it to know about. /// -- Why did that stupid George W. Bush turn to Christian fundamentalism to fight Islamic fundamentalism? Why use terms like "crusade", which only invokes fear of a repetition of that disgraceful period of Christianity with its _sustained_ terrorist attacks on Islam? He is _such_ an idiot.