Subject: Re: MLISP anyone? was Re: Lisp and Scheme.....
From: rpw3@old-rigden.engr.sgi.com (Rob Warnock)
Date: 2000/02/06
Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
Message-ID: <87jfhr$16he2@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Neonfish99 <neonfish99@aol.compost> wrote:
+---------------
| Actually spaces between symbols and operators in mathematical expressions
| DO bother me.  That's why I'm not really happy with scheme or lisp
| tokenizers - everything touching gets turned into a single atom.
+---------------

Well, not quite. There are a few always-breaking delimeters...

	> '(abc"def",ghi,@jkl'mno)
	(abc "def" (unquote ghi) (unquote-splicing jkl) (quote mno))
	> 


-Rob

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