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Hm, I'd rather stick with the neccessity of using CHAR-CODE & friends than having READ-BYTE read more than *a byte*.

Hi, although this isn't a complete answer to your posting you might want to have a look at this and search for "Reader". The author shows a pretty straightforward way to define a useful reader macro for strings. However, this function would have to be manipulated in order to get the exact ...

The HyperSpec. There's a pretty good description of loop's BNF. But I must admit that it takes some time to work through this page.

Yes, I thought so, but wasn't sure

To my own surprise, because I come from Java, I'm not using clos, only lists, maps, etc, and mostly functions or methods that are functional (no setf). I may be better off moving towards the middle with structs for certain things. But I would like to stay mostly functional. What speaks against usin...

Hm, I like CLOS and fairly often use objects. However, I prefer using "regular" functions instead of methods wherever methods aren't explicitly neccessary.

Yes, that's the nice one I'm referring to on top of the first page of "my version". Thanks once again for your work!

The one place where ANSI Common Lisp lacks versus Practical Common Lisp is with respect to CLOS. PG is not a fan of CLOS and doesn't really cover it. In contrast, Peter Siebel uses is heavily in PCL. That's one reason I recommend both to people. You'll definitely learn something from each. Dito. Al...

Thanks!

Thanks, I missed it because I only looked at sbcl's front page.