[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Martelli) writes:
> Bill Atkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...
> > > ``allow ( as an ordinary single-character identifier'' as for the
> > > unneded feature ``allow unnamed functions with all the flexibility of
> > > named ones''.
> >
> > Not so infeasible:
> >
> > (let ((|bizarrely(named()symbol| 3))
> > (+ |bizarrely(named()symbol| 4))
> >
> > ;; => 7
>
> Read again what I wrote: I very specifically said "ordinary
> *single-character* identifier" (as opposed to "one of many characters
> inside a multi-character identifier"). Why do you think I said
> otherwise, when you just quoted what I had written? (Even just a
> _leading_ ( at the start of an identifier may be problematic -- and just
> as trivial as having to give names to functions, of course, see below).
bah...
[1]> (setq rtbl (copy-readtable))
#<READTABLE #x203A0F6D>
[2]> (set-syntax-from-char #\{ #\()
T
[3]> (set-syntax-from-char #\( #\a)
T
[4]> {defun ( {a) {1+ a))
(
[5]> {( 1)
2
[6]> {( 4)
5
[7]> {setq *readtable* rtbl)
#<READTABLE #x203A0F6D>
[8]> (1+ 1)
2
With readtable and reader macros you can change the syntax as you
wish.
ajr.
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