I've done things like that often enough (putting parens around file contents or each line of an ascii file) that I wonder if it would be worth writing a macro that inserted the parens for you on the fly as you read the file before handing it off to the code you want to execute.
I know that was vague, but I just get the feeling I'm often doing something semi-manually in Emacs that my code should be doing for me.
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Cheating would be putting an open paren at the top of the file, a close paren at the bottom, and implementing it in Scheme as
I've done things like that often enough (putting parens around file contents or each line of an ascii file) that I wonder if it would be worth writing a macro that inserted the parens for you on the fly as you read the file before handing it off to the code you want to execute.
I know that was vague, but I just get the feeling I'm often doing something semi-manually in Emacs that my code should be doing for me.
If that is wrong (cheating) - then baby, I don't ever want to be be right !
code as data wins again ! (but with great power, comes great responsibility).