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enhancements
- To: T-Discussion at YALE
- Subject: enhancements
- From: Jonathan Rees <Rees at YALE>
- Date: Wed ,21 Apr 82 16:09:00 EDT
For all you hackers out there, more features... this about takes me to
the end of things I can do without making some kind of structure package
& a manual... so don't be too distressed about how random this all is...
- Read-macro characters don't act as break characters. For example:
(SET-SYNTAX #\? (LAMBDA (STREAM CH) `(QUESTION-MARK ,(READ STREAM))))
With this definition, ?FOO reads in as (QUESTION-MARK FOO), but
FOO? still reads in as the single symbol FOO?.
- (MDEBUG) puts you in a read-macroexpand-prettyprint loop. Very handy
if you're debugging macros. Type any atom to exit. This is likely
to be replaced by a fancier facility in the future, but for now, it'll
do. (There is a MACRO-EXPAND routine but I'll only describe it if
someone asks about it.)
- General I/O streams seem to work. Soon PP will start indenting, and
(FORMAT NIL ...) will work. Even without these, see what you get:
- (STRING->STREAM string) returns a stream from which you can READ or READC
or whatever.
(LET ((Z (STRING->STREAM "What (a win) ")))
(LIST (READ Z) (READ Z)))
=> (WHAT (A WIN))
- (WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING var . body) binds var to an output stream to
which you can do WRITEC, PRINT, DISPLAY, FORMAT, etc. Output is
accumulated in a string, which is yielded as the value of the whole
form. E.g.
(WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING FOO
(WRITES FOO "What ")
(PRINT '(A WIN) FOO)
(WRITEC FOO #\.))
=> "What (A WIN)."
- You can define your own streams using ENTITY-expressions. See
<F.T.TAU>STREAMS.TAU for examples. Documentation forthcoming.