Re: Linefeed character in SBCL

Kent M Pitman <pitman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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| http://common-lisp.net/project/bknr/static/lmman/fd-str.xml
| Note that the codes there are shown in octal, not decimal, which was
| for a very long time the default ibase/base for Zetalisp, and that in
| octal LF is 12 and CR is 15. Note also that Return is 215 OCTAL, that
| is, an ASCII CR with the 200 octal bit (010 000 000 binary) set. (The
| number of codes that had the 200 bit set on top of what would have
| been the ASCII coding is something I never really noticed until just
| this minute looking at that table, but I'm quite sure it was not
| accidental.
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Heh! For a second I thought it was just "7+1" even parity,
which was once upon a time the most common flavor of ASCII
used for Teletypes:

> (defun even-parity/7+1 (x)
(let ((x7 (logand x #o177)))
(+ x7 (if (oddp (logcount x7)) #o200 0))))

EVEN-PARITY/7+1
> (write (mapcar 'even-parity/7+1 (iota 16 8)) :base 8)
(210 11 12 213 14 215 216 17 220 21 22 223 24 225 226 27)
(136 9 10 139 12 141 142 15 144 17 18 147 20 149 150 23)
>

But looking at the URL you reference shows that that's incorrect.
Zetalisp just stuck all the "control" codes up at #o200+x for its
own weird reasons, and the fact that "x" happens to match the
corresponding ASCII control code for just a few of them was just a
convenience for the designers (and confusion for everyone else!).


-Rob

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