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Lisp programs and functions are stored internally as Lisp data objects, the Lisp Reader is the mechanism that translates from textual descriptions of Lisp objects to the internal data structures representing them.
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 a whole Lisp object has been parsed.
See Data Types.