Re-Reading Abbreviated Expressions (original) (raw)

ANSI Common Lisp 2 Syntax 2.4 Standard Macro Characters

2.4.9 Re-Reading Abbreviated Expressions

Note that the Lisp reader will generally signal an error of type reader-errorwhen reading an _expression_2 that has been abbreviated because of length or level limits (see *print-level*,*print-length*, and *print-lines*) due to restrictions on "..", "...", "#" followed by _whitespace_1, and "#)".