Comment 1 for bug 1252100

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Douglas Katzman (dougk) wrote :

ABCL and ECL implement SBCL's current behavior, but it definitely seems an improvement to signal a reader-error.
CLISP does, and CCL gets itself into an error more-or-less by accident, speaking of the unportability of the syntax.

Plus I think we need more reasons to use Latin -

* (read-from-string "#9()")
debugger invoked on a SB-INT:SIMPLE-READER-ERROR in thread
#<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {1002C052B3}>:
  Ex Nihilo Nihil - can't initialize length 9 vector from NIL.

How's that?