Subject: Re: Lisp vs Java
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:02:08 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp,comp.lang.java.advocacy
Message-ID: <qKWdnSXCV_O9jGrVnZ2dnUVZ_h6dnZ2d@speakeasy.net>
Pascal J. Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
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| Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.spamfilter@virtualinfinity.net> writes:
| > My dream language is case sensitive and uses infix operators. Oops,
| > sorry lisp. ;-)
| 
| (SETF (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*) :PRESERVE)
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Personally, I find that (SETF (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE*) :INVERT)
is a more natural way to get a case-sensitive CL without having to
type all one's programs in uppercase. [But that's just me, maybe...]

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| PS: In my opinion, INFIX is quite silly... But that's just me.
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Here we agree! ;-}


-Rob

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