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Re: r6rs incompatibilities
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Andy Wingo |
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Re: r6rs incompatibilities |
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Wed, 26 May 2010 15:21:54 +0200 |
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On Wed 26 May 2010 15:02, Julian Graham <address@hidden> writes:
>>> We could make this more general, as the r7 committees are wont to do: if
>>> #! is followed by whitespace or /, then read as a block comment;
>>> otherwise read one token. In our case, we would read #!foo as #:foo. I
>>> don't think this change would affect anyone. What do you think?
>>
>> Note that there are a couple of other #! constructs being considered for
>> scheme 7, for example to control case folding. It seems more or less
>> sensible. Perhaps we should read these as directives, and not as datums
>> at all.
>>
>> There is also the possibility of introducing a reader option for this
>> behavior.
>
> Any chance we could go with my (admittedly sloppy) approach (or
> something equally as quick) in the short term, and then, as they say
> in the 'biz, "iterate?" The above sounds sweet, but it seems like
> it'd make more sense to tackle those things post-2.0.
Heh, sure. But don't make it return SCM_UNSPECIFIED, please; make it
treat #!r6rs as a comment. See
http://www.r6rs.org/final/html/r6rs/r6rs-Z-H-7.html#node_sec_4.2.3.
Andy
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- r6rs incompatibilities, Andy Wingo, 2010/05/21
- Re: r6rs incompatibilities, Julian Graham, 2010/05/21
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- Re: r6rs incompatibilities, Mike Gran, 2010/05/23
- Re: r6rs incompatibilities, Julian Graham, 2010/05/23
- Re: r6rs incompatibilities, Andy Wingo, 2010/05/23
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- Re: r6rs incompatibilities, Julian Graham, 2010/05/26
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