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Subject: Re: Read macro blues: #+
From: Erik Naggum <erik@naggum.no>
Date: 1999/01/27
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp.franz,comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <3126458081346149@naggum.no>

* Paul.Meurer@hit.uib.no (Paul Meurer)
| I have exactly the same problem with #_ (from MCL) in LispWorks.  The
| reason is probably that the reader goes through the commented-out text to
| find the end of the comment, where it encounters #_ and barks.

  #+ is not a comment.  #|...|# is a comment.

  there reason it does not work is there is no telling what a reader macro
  will do in the normal case that is supposed to be skipped if there is no
  code to dispatch to.

#:Erik
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