Error in formal grammar of R7RS small

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Daphne Preston-Kendal

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Jan 19, 2022, 3:50:38 PM1/19/22

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Section 6.2.5 of R7RS small allows the specifiers s, f, d, and l to be used to specify the precision of an inexact number. However, these specifiers are apparently not present in the formal grammar given in section 7.1.1.

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John Cowan

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Jan 20, 2022, 3:45:51 PM1/20/22

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On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 3:50 PM Daphne Preston-Kendal <d...@nonceword.org> wrote:

Section 6.2.5 of R7RS small allows the specifiers s, f, d, and l to be used to specify the precision of an inexact number.

It says that implementations "may accept" alternative prefixes, so that it is truly optional to support them or not; therefore, they are not mentioned in the formal grammar.

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