I just wanted to be able to extract the information that Gnus write to its ~/.newsrc.eld file. In order to do this I ended up writing a general Lisp reader. It reads textual lisp and returns a perl structure that represents the Lisp objects. For instance

; this is a comment (foo "foo" (+ 42))

Ends up as the following perl structure.

[symbol("foo"), "foo", [symbol("+"), 42]]

Once I had this I just had to produce a Lisp printer, i.e. something that takes structure like the one above and returns the textual lisp representation of it. And then it was just a matter of a little programming to turn on evaluation of these objects and a minimal Lisp environment was born.

All code in this package is experimental and the interfaces can change at any time.

Copyright 1997 Gisle Aas. [email protected]