From ... Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsfeeds.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!news2.kpn.net!news.kpn.net!nslave.kpnqwest.net!nloc.kpnqwest.net!nmaster.kpnqwest.net!nreader1.kpnqwest.net.POSTED!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: Re: lisp question ~ ^*^ References: Mail-Copies-To: never From: Erik Naggum Message-ID: <3213492916086542@naggum.net> Organization: Naggum Software, Oslo, Norway Lines: 16 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 04:55:17 GMT X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@Norway.EU.net X-Trace: nreader1.kpnqwest.net 1004504117 193.71.66.49 (Wed, 31 Oct 2001 05:55:17 MET) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 05:55:17 MET Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.lisp:18863 * cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com | Can somebody suggest a method involving READTABLE modifications that | would accomplish that? Huh? Bind *print-case* to :downcase, and the printer will print symbol names in all lower-case. With all the clamoring some people engage in to point out how ugly Common Lisp is with upper-case symbol names, this simple printer control variable setting at least takes care of the problem of seeing the supposedly ugly upper-case letters in replies. /// -- Norway is now run by a priest from the fundamentalist Christian People's Party, the fifth largest party representing one eighth of the electorate. -- Carrying a Swiss Army pocket knife in Oslo, Norway, is a criminal offense.