Re: sanity check (coding style)

Peter Seibel <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> tar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Thomas A. Russ) writes:
>
>> This is nice, since it uses the string stream to collect the values. If
>> efficiency is really critical, one could avoid the FORMAT call (which
>> often tends to be slow) and subsitute a 256 element lookup table:
>>
>> (defconstant *hex-codes* #("00" "01" ... "FF"))
>
> Surely we don't have to write that by hand; that's not The Lisp Way!
>
> (defconstant *hex-codes* #.(coerce (loop for i from #x00 to #xff collect (format nil "~2,'0x" i)) 'vector))

Well, you can write that, but it's not the SBCL way, as it will rudely
remind you if you reexecute that definition ;-)

Christophe

[ (let ((hex-codes #.(coerce ...)))
(defun ...)) ]
.

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