Re: [Sbcl-devel] [RfC] Signalling an error when standard-readtable is modified.

[Julian S. <der...@we...>]

"Tobias C. Rittweiler" <tc...@fr...> writes:

> WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX binds *READTABLE* to SB-IMPL::*STANDARD-READTABLE*,
> which may then possibly get modified. 

You could bind it to a copy of SB-IMPL::*STANDARD-READTABLE*. Then you
wouldn't have to change any code (except the trivial change to
WITH-STANDARD-IO-SYNTAX) and still keep the user from shooting in his
foot.

Regards,
-- 
Julian Stecklina

Well, take it from an old hand: the only reason it would be easier to
program in C is that you can't easily express complex problems in C,
so you don't. - Erik Naggum (in comp.lang.lisp)