Re: Reader macro suggestions

2011-03-21 Thread Stuart Sierra
Not an argument against the request, just a reminder: heredocs are subtly different from quoting. In the traditional shell implementation, a heredoc starts on the line following the "<<", so you can have stuff like this: some_command

Reader macro suggestions

2011-03-21 Thread rob levy
One useful reader macro would be do the analog of a syntax-quote in an ignored sexp ( #- is the analog of ~ ): #_(ignore (continuing to ignore #-"except do not ignore this" and ignore this)) Another language feature that I think many wish for to have some way of specifying a string with