R6RS Draft Available - comp.lang.scheme

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Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk

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More options Sep 15 2006, 12:58 pm

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From: Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk <qrc...@knm.org.pl>

Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 18:58:06 +0200

Local: Fri, Sep 15 2006 12:58 pm

Subject: Re: R6RS Draft Available

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Ron Garret <rNOSPA...@flownet.com> writes:
>> > I am pleasantly surprised by the semicolon in the "\x123;" syntax.

>> I'm a little annoyed by it actually. It's a semicolon but doesn't
>> introduce a comment, so it introduces states and transitions that
>> the lexer didn't actually need, and makes converting source back and
>> forth between ASCII and Unicode require some parsing rather than just
>> simple patternmatching.

>> I'm glad there's a terminator there.

> Why? It seems to be that whitespace makes an adequate terminator.

This applies to string literals.

I'm also glad about this detail, and about the R6RS direction in
general. The "\x123;" syntax with a semicolon happens to coincide
with my language.

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__("< Marcin Kowalczyk
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