Subject: Re: basic question about packages
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 10:03:11 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <x4icnS1jDvKyQtmiXTWc-g@speakeasy.net>
Joe Marshall  <jrm@ccs.neu.edu> wrote:
+---------------
| rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) writes:
| > Thomas A. Russ <tar@sevak.isi.edu> wrote:
| > +---------------
| > | Actually, I prefer to use strings instead.
| > +---------------
| >
| > Then how do you make your code portable between implementations that
| > have different default READTABLE-CASE conventions?!? 
| 
| Why would anyone be concerned with porting code to non-compliant 
| Lisp implementations?
+---------------

Apparently some do. See the flamewars here last Fall (and several times
before that) about "modern mode" vs. readtable-case :invert, etc., etc.


-Rob

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