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From: mj@cs.brown.edu (Mark Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
Subject: READ and upper/lower case symbol print names
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Date: 19 Dec 89 15:26:16 GMT
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Reply-To: mj@cs.brown.edu (Mark Johnson)
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Is there an easy way to modify the lisp READ function so that
it does not always convert lower case letters to upper case
in symbol names?  The Lisp reader is fine for a simple NLP project
of mine, except for this case conversion.

Reflecting on the issue as I was walking in this morning, it seemed
to me that the readtable would be the logical place for the 
case conversion to be specified.  But it seems as if they are
hardwired into the reader itself.  If this is so, why?

Thanks,

Mark Johnson