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From: albert@kim.Berkeley.EDU (Anthony Albert)
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Subject: Re: Changing syntax of characters in Franz
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Date: Fri, 13-Jun-86 17:51:18 EDT
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In article <1126@ellie.UUCP> colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
>> (3) Assuming a character's syntax has been reset as a "vmacro," how can you 
>> find out exactly what function the character has been set to (short of typing 
>> it and observing what Lisp does)?  Is there a way for a program to find out?
>
>I've done it, but I've forgotten how.  You may need to consult the oblist.
>-- 
>Col. G. L. Sicherman

You can use getsyntax (e.g. (getsyntax '\X)) to find out what class the
character is in. If it is in a "macro" class (e.g. vmacro, vsplicing-macro),
the value of the function it is set to is assigned to the property which
is the value of "readtable". Therefore, to get the name of the function, you
can use (get '\X readtable). Of course, if the function has been compiled,
you still won't know what it does.
				Anthony Albert
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