2026-10-08 00:24 UTC
the emacs lisp manual says the reader doesn’t implement reader macros or readtables for simplicity
it may not surprise you to learn that the reader with readtables is simpler than the one without them
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@jwz@mastodon.social 2026-10-08 03:49
@zzt@mas.to Terminology problem. The RMS definition of "simplicity" is "the only data structures allowed are conses of symbols".