Any #commonlisp wizards out there?
I'm on a journey to explore the Common Lisp ecosystem and so far so good.
While figuring out which SQL/MySQL system to use, I stumbled across the testsuite for `cl-dbi` where it uses `:|some_string|` to retrieve the value from a result row.
I have run out of ideas on what to search for to find the meaning of `:|somestring|`.
`:a-keyword` is a keyword.
`|a-symbol` is a symbol.
> I have run out of ideas on what to search for to find the meaning of `:|somestring|`.
The reader (the part of the software that breaks the code in tokens) when find a ':' run some code that, by default, reads the string until a white space is met, converts to uppercase and interns the string into the package "keyword".
But when the reader find ':|' it reads until the next '|' and intern the string into the package "keyword" without changing case, so for example:
(eq :foo :FOO); → T
(eq :foo :|FOO|); → T
(eq :foo :|foo|); → NIL
Bye!
C.
Johan Mynhardt 🇿🇦
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