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		aidenn0 on June 3, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Full Stack Lisp – A book in progress abou... Actually the entirety of Common Lisp's parser except for numbers, symbols, and the consing dot are implemented as read macros.

xenophonf on June 3, 2016 [–]

It's been a while since I looked at the spec, but I think the dot as used in cons cells is part of the left-parenthesis reader macro.

aidenn0 on June 3, 2016 | [–]

http://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_cc....

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