From: david
Subject: help finding documentation please
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:50:53 +0000
Message-ID: <92c6034f-5864-4245-9194-3857c28d00e3@j35g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>

hello lispers, i am trying to understand what
the vertical-bar does below.
i have searched the google and the hyperspec to no avail.
thanks, david

CL-USER> (symbol-name 'k)
"K"
CL-USER> (symbol-name '|k|)
"k"

• Re: help finding documentation please Pascal J. Bourguignon
  • Re: help finding documentation please david

From: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Subject: Re: help finding documentation please
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:44:17 +0000
Message-ID: <87tz60v6zy.fsf@galatea.local>

david <······@gmail.com> writes:

> hello lispers, i am trying to understand what
> the vertical-bar does below.
> i have searched the google and the hyperspec to no avail.
> thanks, david
>
> CL-USER> (symbol-name 'k)
> "K"
> CL-USER> (symbol-name '|k|)
> "k"

You should read the whole chapter 2, but specifically, the role of #\|
is explained in:
http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_b.htm

Have a look at READTABLE-CASE and *PRINT-CASE* too.

-- 
__Pascal Bourguignon__

From: david
Subject: Re: help finding documentation please
Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 07:50:59 +0000
Message-ID: <9bd5b04f-261e-475a-80a1-50b56896c23a@q9g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>

On Mar 11, 2:44 am, ····@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
> david <······@gmail.com> writes:
> > hello lispers, i am trying to understand what
> > the vertical-bar does below.
> > i have searched the google and the hyperspec to no avail.
> > thanks, david
>
> > CL-USER> (symbol-name 'k)
> > "K"
> > CL-USER> (symbol-name '|k|)
> > "k"
>
> You should read the whole chapter 2, but specifically, the role of #\|
> is explained in:http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_b.htm
>
> Have a look at READTABLE-CASE and *PRINT-CASE* too.
>
> --
> __Pascal Bourguignon__

thanks :)