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[JONL at MIT-MC (Jon L White)]

From:     GRAND@MIT-AI
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 79 11:08:14 GMT
Original-Date: 09/20/79 07:08:14 EDT
Subject:
    To: (BUG LISP) at MIT-AI
	    This isn't a bug (I hope). I have a program in which I
    wanted to employ the default readtable without changing the
    global environment. I wrote:
    (PROG ( ...READTABLE... ) (*ARRAY READTABLE READTABLE T) ... )
    and got
    ;NIL BAD VALUE FOR READTABLE
What you should do is, first, look at the section of LISP NEWS
(dsk:lisp;lisp news) for the entry of "APRIL 23,1974" entitled
"[3] NEW ARRAY SCHEME".  Probably you want the syntax
(LET ((READTABLE (*ARRAY () 'READTABLE 'T)))
     ...)