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Re: READLINE
- To: JONL at MIT-MC (Jon L White)
- Subject: Re: READLINE
- From: Guy.Steele at CMU-10A
- Date: Thu, 4 Dec 80 21:14:00 GMT
- Cc: bug-lisp at MIT-MC
- In-reply-to: JONL@MIT-MC's message of 4 Dec 80 05:55-EST
- Original-date: 4 December 1980 1614-EST (Thursday)
What'{s wrong with READLINE and PNGET is that MacLISP cannot
distinguish between the symbols || and |^@|.
What ever happened to the idea of using three bits of the
symbol block to encode the number of characters in the
last word of the pname string?