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22:14:48
aeth
What I do for things like this is #.(symbol-name '#:whatever-the-prefix-is-) because technically you can change how the reader case works to not upcase things. So this makes it into an upper case string at read time through the otherwise not very useful #. read eval feature
22:17:20
Fare
Xach: OK, I believe the build of influxdb is confused because cl-graph declares an absent file index.md, and this causes ASDF to think its build is incomplete
22:20:10
aeth
#.(symbol-name '#:whatever-the-prefix-is-) => "WHATEVER-THE-PREFIX-IS-" or "whatever-the-prefix-is-" depending on the readtable case
22:20:57
aeth
e.g. (let ((*readtable* (copy-readtable *readtable*))) (setf (readtable-case *readtable*) :preserve) (format t "~A~%" (read-from-string "hello")))
22:22:09
aeth
although, actually, that wouldn't help if they rebind the readtable like in that example, it would have to happen before the file is read, afaik
22:31:27
pjb
ealfonso: you may also try :INVERT instead of :PRESERVE, but it works only for symbols not having mixed case characters.
23:22:55
Fare
Xach: it looks like badly named secondary systems for in defsystem-connection might be to blame.
7:10:20
poorbean
hi I'm new in lisp, but python in mit is very bad to me. C beginning book is better, but I don't know which book is good? Thanks
7:15:20
poorbean
Hi beach can you help me, I'm Chinese. But I don't know the good book in begin when someone to competition?
7:15:38
Shinmera
I wonder why it happens so often that scheme people tumble in here when there's literally a channel called #scheme.
7:16:11
beach
poorbean: Like I said, this channel is dedicated to Common Lisp. If you want help with Common Lisp books, this is the right place to ask.
7:16:26
beach
poorbean: But if you want advice about Scheme books, you are better off asking in #scheme.
7:23:04
beach
jackdaniel: I was merely pointing out that whether this or that language is "a Lisp" is not something that is widely agreed upon.
7:38:38
Fare
poorbean, Scheme books for beginners include How to Design Programs, The Little Schemer.