From: Marco Antoniotti <marcoxa@cs.nyu.edu>
Subject: Re: postscript to lisp, plisp package error - Invalid read syntax: "#"
Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 18:24:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <SicYb.35$IJ5.6110@typhoon.nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Y0T9JTFR38033.4074537037@anonymous>
Henna wrote:
> This help is requested in connection with the plisp package
> written by John Peterson of yale.
>
> I am trying to use it and finding errors. I have no lucid
> lisp or any other, other than the emacs lisp. I have
> tried to (require 'cl) without error.
(require 'cl) just gives you some compatibility with Common Lisp from
Emacs Lisp. The two dialects are quite different.
You should get one of the Common Lisp implementations off the net. The
sites www.alu.org or www.cliki.net are excellent starting points.
>
>
> (1)
> I have renamed all files in plisp to be .el from .lisp since that
> is what
> emacs seems to expect. This gave more success in the next loading
> command. I have also set the "load-path" variable to include both
> the compiler and compiler/common-lisp directories.
>
> (2)
> I have tried to load build.el as follows inside emacs:
>
> (load "/home/henna/plisp/compiler/build.el") CTRL-x CTRL-e
>
> The error I get in minibuffer is:
>
> Invalid read syntax: "#"
>
> Is there a simple method to solve this?
No. This is one of the fundamental differences between Common Lisp and
Emacs Lisp. Get a Common Lisp.
It will save you time and eventually it will be better.
Cheers
--
Marco
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-16 23:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-16 14:46 postscript to lisp, plisp package error - Invalid read syntax: "#" Henna
2004-02-16 15:51 ` Joe Marshall
2004-02-16 22:05 ` Golan Trevize
2004-02-16 23:24 ` Marco Antoniotti [this message]
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2004-02-16 14:55 Henna
2004-02-16 15:09 ` Henrik Motakef
2004-02-16 15:35 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2004-02-16 16:37 postscript to lisp, plisp package error - Invalid read syntax: "# Henna
2004-02-16 16:40 Nomen Nescio
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