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From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
Subject: Re: Case-sensitive readtable
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.050527.4992@Think.COM>
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References: <1991Jun24.224323.8453@dsd.es.com> <SIMON.91Jun25104137@liasun1.epfl.ch>
Date: Wed, 26 Jun 91 05:05:27 GMT
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In article <SIMON.91Jun25104137@liasun1.epfl.ch> simon@liasun6.epfl.ch writes:
>That's what X3J13 invented the READTABLE-CASE accessor for.  I tried
>Sun Common Lisp 4.0.1, Symbolics Genera 8.0.2 and Allegro Common Lisp
>4.0.1, but none of them implements this function... maybe the vendors
>manage to vote this useful feature out of the standard.  (remember the
>environment access functions in CLtL 2?)

Nope, it's still in the draft standard.  But few of the vendors claim to
implement everything in CLtL2, and this is one of the things that they
haven't added yet.
-- 
Barry Margolin, Thinking Machines Corp.

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