Recently, I have come across the so-called hash-dot Common Lisp reader macro and am wondering how it works and what it does. Using search engines was not of much help, so any examples, explanations and especially uses-cases are most welcome.
- 2lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/02_dhf.htmRainer Joswig– Rainer Joswig2018-02-14 21:41:18 +00:00Commented Feb 14, 2018 at 21:41
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In the spec this is called sharpsign dot. It does read-time evaluation. You can search the Common Lisp hyper spec for that. I don’t have it to hand but I believe in Emacs with slime one can look up the documentation for reader macros. Do C-c C-d C-h to see if there is a command for that.
#.foo reads as whatever (eval foo) returns. Thus:
CL-USER> '((+ 1 2) #.(+ 1 2)) ((+ 1 2) 3) CL-USER> (read) #.(* 3 4) 12 