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.
@johanmynhardt one can ask Lisp about it. DESCRIBE prints a short description of a data object.
CL-USER > (describe :|I woke up early this morning.|)
:|I woke up early this morning.| is a KEYWORD
NAME "I woke up early this morning."
VALUE :|I woke up early this morning.|
FUNCTION #<unbound function>
PLIST NIL
PACKAGE #<The KEYWORD package, 0/4 internal, 7626/8192 external>
Thus it is a symbol in the KEYWORD package.
Johan Mynhardt 🇿🇦
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