From: Deepak Goel
Subject: '|a| should print as 'a ?
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9910010131100.19039-100000@fosters.umd.edu>

hi

and thanks to all for helping.

my book (Graham) says that

USER: '|a|
should return
a

But allegro common lisp returns |a|.


I am trying to achieve '|<arbitrary>| should print <arbitarry> when it
contains no spaces or special characters but should print |arbitrary| when 
there are some special characters (viz, *with* the bars.)

Is it different for ACL? (i couldn't figure it out from their website!)

thanks again.


--Deepak

From: Erik Naggum
Subject: Re: '|a| should print as 'a ?
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 1999 00:00:00 +0000
Message-ID: <3147747904964943@naggum.no>

* Deepak Goel <·····@Glue.umd.edu>
| I am trying to achieve '|<arbitrary>| should print <arbitarry> when it
| contains no spaces or special characters but should print |arbitrary|
| when  there are some special characters (viz, *with* the bars.)

  lowercase letters are special characters when the reader upcases.

#:Erik