Re: postscript to lisp, plisp package error - Invalid read syntax: "#"

[Golan Trevize]

Hi,

Now that is a blast from the past.
>From the subject it looks like you're looking for a PostScript to Lisp
Compiler, PLisp is a Lisp to PostScript Compiler not a PostScript to Lisp
Compiler.
It helped me years ago before I became prociient in PostScript.

Another good system that wrote quite efficient PostScript was Pdb which was
a "C to PostScript Compiler" it had a lot of uses outside NeWS.

Golan Trevize

"Henna" <Anonymous-Remailer@See.Comment.Header> wrote in message
news:Y0T9JTFR38033.4074537037@anonymous...
>
> 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.
>
>
> (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?
> I am looking on comp.lang.postscript/lisp for help on plisp and there
> is no traffic or conversation on this.
>
> You can see the result of renaming:
>
> % du -a
> 3       ./common-lisp/lisp-util.el
> 3       ./common-lisp/loop.el
> 2       ./common-lisp/mvalues.el
> 3       ./common-lisp/numeric.el
> 3       ./common-lisp/bind.el
> 3       ./common-lisp/control.el
> 2       ./common-lisp/for.el
> 2       ./common-lisp/functional.el
> 22      ./common-lisp
> 9       ./defps.el
> 2       ./flow.el
> 4       ./macros.el
> 2       ./names.el
> 5       ./output.el
> 1       ./plisp-compile.el
> 1       ./rename
> 9       ./top.el
> 1       ./util.el
> 6       ./args.el
> 1       ./build.el
> 6       ./compile.el
> 1       ./rename~
> 2       ./vars.el
> 1       ./t~
> 2       ./ps-vars.el
>
>
> (3)
> I loaded the file using the debugging enabled as:
>
> (setq debug-on-error t)
>
> and I get the following error:
>
> Signaling: (invalid-read-syntax "#")
>   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*<2>> nil "output")
>   load-with-code-conversion("/home/henna/plisp/compiler/output.el"
"output"
>  nil nil)
>   load("output")
>   eval-buffer(#<buffer  *load*> nil "/home/henna/plisp/compiler/build.el")
>   load-with-code-conversion("/home/henna/plisp/compiler/build.el"
> "/home/henna/plisp/compiler/build.e$
>   load("/home/henna/plisp/compiler/build.el")
>   eval((load "/home/henna/plisp/compiler/build.el"))
>   eval-last-sexp(nil)
> * call-interactively(eval-last-sexp)
>
>
> Thanks
> henna@techemail.com
>
>
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