On Jul 17, 1:52 pm, Rich Hickey wrote:
> #_ does what you want:
>
> user=> (list 1 2 #_42 3)
> (1 2 3)
Thanks for pointing that out.
I notice this is actually on the reader page - apologies for not
looking properly.
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> (I once tried to write a reader macro for CL which would do this, but
> the best I got was one which would read two forms and ignore the
> first.)
The usual technique in Common Lisp is
cl-user(1): (list 1 2 #+(or) 3 4)
(1 2 4)
You can improve readability by using #+:never or somesuch, but tha
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 8:13 AM,
philip.hazel...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> On Jul 17, 4:56 am, Richard Newman wrote:
>> If you want unsyntactic input in your file, comment it out with
>> semicolons.
>>
>> Adding true block comments -- #| |# -- is on the to-do list.
> While we're on the subject, are th
On Jul 17, 4:56 am, Richard Newman wrote:
> If you want unsyntactic input in your file, comment it out with
> semicolons.
>
> Adding true block comments -- #| |# -- is on the to-do list.
While we're on the subject, are there any plans for a sexp-comment?
Essentially I'm looking for reader synta
That makes really good sense. Thanks for the clear explanation!
Kev
On Jul 17, 1:56 pm, Richard Newman wrote:
> > 1:24 com.kkw.ss=> (comment 1s)
> > java.lang.NumberFormatException: Invalid number: 1s
> > java.lang.Exception: Unmatched delimiter: )
> > 1:25 com.kkw.ss=>
>
> > Kindly let me k
> 1:24 com.kkw.ss=> (comment 1s)
> java.lang.NumberFormatException: Invalid number: 1s
> java.lang.Exception: Unmatched delimiter: )
> 1:25 com.kkw.ss=>
>
>Kindly let me know if I've done something abnormal.
comment is a macro, not a syntactic element. A macro is evaluated
after read time (
Hi folks,
Anyone get the following interesting messages?
1:19 com.kkw.ss=> (comment 1)
nil
1:20 com.kkw.ss=> (comment s1)
nil
1:21 com.kkw.ss=> (comment 1)
nil
1:22 com.kkw.ss=> (comment s)
nil
1:23 com.kkw.ss=> (comment s1)
nil
1:24 com.kkw.ss=> (comment 1s)
java.lang.NumberFormatException:
