Re: Sharp with exports in defpackage??
- From: Christophe Rhodes <csr21@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 10:11:05 +0000
rpw3@xxxxxxxx (Rob Warnock) writes:
Another reason to use symbols [whether uninterned or keyword]
instead of "NAME" strings is to avoid problems when the user
is running with a non-standard READTABLE-CASE mode. When symbols
such as #:name are typed in in lowercase, they'll "do the right
thing" regardless of whether (READTABLE-CASE *READTABLE) is the
CLHS default :UPCASE or the increasingly-popular-when-doing-FFI
:INVERT mode. Whereas "NAME" breaks in the latter case...
No it doesn't.
Christophe
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