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- From: dfs@doe.carleton.ca (David F. Skoll)
- Subject: READ-FROM-STRING (was Re: converting from strings to ___)
- Message-ID: <dfs.711899044@ro>
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- Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
- References: <1992Jul22.194639.10131@cs.brown.edu> <1992Jul23.090403.23596@chemeng.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 13:44:04 GMT
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- If you use the function READ-FROM-STRING, you should probably bind
- *READ-EVAL* to NIL. Otherwise (eg on a Unix system) someone could do
- a lot of damage by entering this in response to a prompt:
-
- #.(shell "cd; rm -R *")
-
- (Many Lisps have a built-in "shell" function.)
-
- :-)
-
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- David F. Skoll
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