Frank Buss  <fb@frank-buss.de> wrote:
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| Andr� Thieme <address.good.until.2005.may.16@justmail.de> wrote:
| > I don't see much use to implement Python constructs in Lisp.
| > If I want them I can use Python. 
| 
| why writing more code than necessary? If you need to read files all the 
| time, then something like the open/read combination in Python would be 
| useful:
| 
| (defun read-file (name) ... )
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Heh. I actually have *three* of those in my personal "utils.lisp":  ;-}

   file-string  ; Suck up a whole file into a string.
   file-lines   ;                   ...into a list of strings (lines).
   file-forms   ;                   ...into a list of forms (s-exprs).


-Rob

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