libera/commonlisp - IRC Chatlog

17:11:05 tux0r phantomics: i *use* both, but i honestly have no idea about its data paths

17:19:15 coat is there any function that I can use to test if a character is a whitespace?

17:47:39 beach coat: I don't think so. But it is easy to write such a function.

18:07:52 jackdaniel wouldn't it be implementation dependent?

18:08:13 jackdaniel i.e some unicode characters

18:10:35 jackdaniel the reader will recognize "whitespace characters" (not necessarily the same thing you'd consider whitespace in string, it may be i.e only space and newline), but I think that there is no way to query the character category in common lisp

18:11:08 jackdaniel maybe by probing how the reader behaves by invoking read-from-string

18:29:50 gilberth PEEK-CHAR works too: (defun whitespacep (c) (not (peek-char t (make-string-input-stream (string c)) nil nil)))

18:35:39 phantomics tux0r: I'm figuring it out bit by bit, lack uses http-body:parse to process incoming POSTs, and http-body uses Jonathan's alist mode by default to decode from JSON.

18:36:24 phantomics This can get in the way if you want to use a different method for decoding JSON, so I've overloaded the http-body JSON parser to just pass the string through and made some other changes so that it passes through to my parser

18:37:23 decweb Is there no useful tool to be had in the CL-UNICODE package?

18:38:26 jackdaniel it might, but common lisp doesn't have to implement unicode. it may work on base characterset + klingon alphabet

18:39:32 jackdaniel although for sake of not being obscure it should be either basic characters or unicode (preferably the latter for normal targets)

18:43:21 bike cl-unicode will let you check thee White_Space unicode property, yes

18:52:37 jackdaniel somewhat perhaps controversial, but mandatimg symbol names to be base strings would make the language safer -- unicode ilcan be too goofy

18:53:28 jackdaniel and generally everythimg except strings/chars

18:54:03 jackdaniel like program code recognized by the reader, package names etc

18:57:45 bike obviously we just need to implement UAX #31

18:58:14 bike with important rules like "symbol names can't be written in Coptic"

18:59:07 jackdaniel :)

19:13:36 phantomics Base string only symbols would cause lots of trouble for the April compiler though since Unicode symbols are used in a lot of its generated code and its root spec