Reader

Like the scanner, the reader returns either an end-of-file delimiter or the actual object read. The end-of-file object is of type eof, as defined in Section . All other values are elements of read:

read : zodiac (object)

The reader's output is sub-divided into scalar and sequence objects:

scalar : read ()

sequence : read (length)

Most of these sub-types should be self-explanatory:

string : read ()

boolean : read ()

number : read ()

symbol : read (orig-name marks)

char : read ()

list : sequence (marks)

vector : sequence ()

improper-list : sequence (period marks)

In the case of scalar objects, the object fields are used by parsers that perform hygienic macro-expansion.

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