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title: Lisp syntaxes
tags: lisp
date: 2014-08-28 23:41:03
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Apart from the standard reader syntax, some libraries provide syntax for a DSL
of their own or to easily create objects.

# Strings

`#"foo"#` to allow strings with unescaped quotation marks included.

The following is similar to shell here documents and Perl syntax:

    #>END
    This is a text ended byEND

The resulting string will be `"This is a text ended by"`.

# Regular expressions

`#R""` is the DSL used by `CL-PPCRE` to construct regular expressions.

# SQL

`(query [select 'item :where [= [slot-value 'item 'id] 23]])` is the DSL for
`CL-SQL`.  The resulting expressions are later converted to regular SQL
statements.