Subject: Re: what is 'cl-user:: ?
From: rpw3@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock)
Date: Sat, 25 Apr 2009 22:28:06 -0500
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Message-ID: <u_SdnXfM6MhbSW7UnZ2dnUVZ_o2dnZ2d@speakeasy.net>
budden  <budden-lisp@mail.ru> wrote:
+---------------
| In a practice:
| 
| lispworks, clisp, ccl
| (read-from-string "cl-user::")
| returns cl-user::||
| 
| sbcl and allegro report a error.
+---------------

As others have noted, bare CL-USER:: is an illegal token. However,
CL-USER::|| *is* a legal token, and thus the following should work
everywhere:

    > (read-from-string "cl-user::||")

    ||
    11
    > (eq * (intern "" "CL-USER"))

    T
    > (symbol-name **)

    ""
    > (length *)

    0
    > 


-Rob

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