allows you to skip the often tedious parsing step by using the host’s read
READ mostly gives a tree of tokens. This makes it a form of a tokenizer. After we call READ we don’t know what the tokens mean: is FOO a variable, a macro, a function, a built-in special form, a type, … This can only be determined by interpreting/compiling the token tree.
READ mostly gives a tree of tokens. This makes it a form of a tokenizer. After we call READ we don’t know what the tokens mean: is FOO a variable, a macro, a function, a built-in special form, a type, … This can only be determined by interpreting/compiling the token tree.