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-rw-r--r--module/language/elisp/lexer.scm30
1 files changed, 18 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/module/language/elisp/lexer.scm b/module/language/elisp/lexer.scm
index 8152a1182..826f6df87 100644
--- a/module/language/elisp/lexer.scm
+++ b/module/language/elisp/lexer.scm
@@ -370,18 +370,24 @@
(lambda (type str)
(case type
((symbol)
- ;; str could be empty if the first character is already
- ;; something not allowed in a symbol (and not escaped)!
- ;; Take care about that, it is an error because that
- ;; character should have been handled elsewhere or is
- ;; invalid in the input.
- (if (zero? (string-length str))
- (begin
- ;; Take it out so the REPL might not get into an
- ;; infinite loop with further reading attempts.
- (read-char port)
- (error "invalid character in input" c))
- (return 'symbol (string->symbol str))))
+ (cond
+ ((equal? str "nil")
+ (return 'symbol #nil))
+ ((equal? str "t")
+ (return 'symbol #t))
+ (else
+ ;; str could be empty if the first character is already
+ ;; something not allowed in a symbol (and not escaped)!
+ ;; Take care about that, it is an error because that
+ ;; character should have been handled elsewhere or is
+ ;; invalid in the input.
+ (if (zero? (string-length str))
+ (begin
+ ;; Take it out so the REPL might not get into an
+ ;; infinite loop with further reading attempts.
+ (read-char port)
+ (error "invalid character in input" c))
+ (return 'symbol (string->symbol str))))))
((integer)
;; In elisp, something like "1." is an integer, while
;; string->number returns an inexact real. Thus we need