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- From: pk@cs.tut.fi (Kellom{ki Pertti)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.scheme
- Subject: Re: Code is not portable across case folding methods
- Date: 6 Nov 92 10:02:16
- Organization: Tampere Univ. of Technology, Finland.
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- In-reply-to: barmar@think.com's message of 5 Nov 92 18:48:48 GMT
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- In article <1dbqagINN7a2@early-bird.think.com> barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin) writes:
- Unless you're prepared to emulate all the
- features of the reader prior to calling string->symbol, you can lose
- lose. This is why Common Lisp has READ-FROM-STRING.
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- In my case, I have to be prepared to do that, because that's what I'm
- doing: writing a reader. It would be nice to have read-from-string in
- Scheme, though. I can not use plain read, because I want to keep track
- of the position (line and column) in the input stream.
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- Pertti Kellom\"aki (TeX format) # These opinions are mine,
- Tampere Univ. of TeXnology # ALL MINE !
- Software Systems Lab # (but go ahead and use them, if you like)
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