Patient Input of Punctuation and Contractions about elizagen.org HOT 4 CLOSED

Nice. Thanks! I'll incorporate this soon. I'm doing some shadowing experiments to see if I can do away with having to rewrite the code at all (so, in your example, I'd not have to replace reads in the original code with patient-read, and, similarly, I'd be able to back out some other changes as well. Regardless of whether that works, I'll incorp. your code.

Cheers,
'Jeff

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Yes, you could certainly get the same effect and keep the changes segregated from the old code. A simple way to go about that would be to rename the function I called patient-read to ratom -- I believe you (this project rather than the 1960's code) are already supplying the definition of ratom anyway.

The readtable code can of course be moved away. The reason I set it up as a progn around the parameters is so that a user who re-defines the punctuation parameters and re-loads them would also redefine the readtable, keeping them consistent during interactive development. In hindsight that rationale seems inapplicable to your goals:)

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I've done a bunch of hacking just now toward the goal of running "raw". Mostly I packaged things halfway correctly. I also took your guidance a little far, and whacked the readtable to allow ' in atoms, and it actually worked! I still have to do the right shadowing things, but this is half way there.

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I installed your reader. Works great. (There's a minor, unfortunate, and probably repairable duplication of variables bcs of the package crossing, but that's a detail at this point. THANKS!

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