Hello.
I am having some trouble working with Strings or Transient Symbols. (I'll call
them strings for now.)
Consider this string:
"^(a+)\)"
In picoLisp, I must enter that as:
"\^(a+)\\)"
See, the escaping syntax is a pretty heavy burden for the types of strings I
work with...
So, I considered using a reader macro. I imagined something like:
(re-handler /^(a+)(.*)'.*(\)+)/ "aaaand here's some input! :))))")
-->
(re-handler "\^(a+)(.*)'.*(\\)+)" "aaaand here's some input! :))))")
See, the / is being used as a delimiter, instead of ". Javascript does this.
/foo/ is a kind of literal like "foo" is a literal.
..Then I discovered that we don't have a defmacro. (I've read previous
discussion about macros and I accept Alex's stance.)
Any advice for implementing some sort of special case for /strings/, which
would be just like "strings" but with different escape mechanics?
I see src64/io.l contains (code 'readA_E) which handles reading "strings". But
I don't understand this assembly code.
I hope my question is clear.
Thanks, cheers,
--Dave
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