Lisp programs and functions are stored internally as normal Lisp data objects, the Lisp Reader is the process used to translate textual descriptions of Lisp objects into the data structures used to represent the objects.
The Lisp Reader is the collection of internal functions accessed by the
read Lisp function. It reads a character at a time from an input
stream until it has parsed a whole Lisp object.
See section Data Types.
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