Fw: [CM] problem with #! in CMUCL

[rm at fabula.de]

On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 09:15:33AM -0600, Rick Taube wrote:
> in CMUCL with the patch i provided this works:
> 
>  * (object-time #!test)
> 
> but this doesnt:
> 
> * #!test
> 
> unless you hit <return> twice!  this is  a bug in cmucl -- for some reason their read-eval-print loop doesnt notice that its read anything to print.  the "fix" might be for me to make the #! read macro actually restult in evaluation, but then putting #!name references inside quoted lists is impossible. ill have to think about it...
> 


Hmm, in terms of LISP/Scheme transparence: is '#!' really a good choice?
After all '#!' is Guiles (and SCSH's) start of multiline comment character 
(which needs to be terminated by a closing '!#' on as the first character
of an otherwise empty line).


  Ralf Mattes
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