SRFI-10 Error reporting oleg@xxxxxx (01 Dec 1999 19:28 UTC)
SRFI-10 Error reporting Shriram Krishnamurthi (01 Dec 1999 19:41 UTC)
Re: SRFI-10 Error reporting Richard Kelsey (01 Dec 1999 20:47 UTC)
Re: SRFI-10 Error reporting Shriram Krishnamurthi (04 Dec 1999 03:25 UTC)
Re: SRFI-10 Error reporting Richard Kelsey (01 Dec 1999 20:03 UTC)

Re: SRFI-10 Error reporting Richard Kelsey 01 Dec 1999 20:46 UTC

   From: Shriram Krishnamurthi <xxxxxx@cs.rice.edu>
   Date: Wed,  1 Dec 1999 13:41:08 -0600 (CST)
   References: <199912011926.TAA28460@fnmoc.navy.mil>

   xxxxxx@pobox.com wrote:

   > The more I write about this the more I wonder why I have put that
   > phrase about erroneous #,() forms in the first place. I really don't
   > want to get into reading exceptions, syntax error reporting and all
   > that.

   You should.  There is no good justification whatsoever for further
   propagating the shameful state of Scheme's error reporting semantics.

I agree with Shriram on this issue generally, but not in this
particular case.  SRFI-10 says nothing about what #,(<tag> ...)
means for any <tag>, so there isn't much point in saying what it
means for `undefined' tags.  With no defined tags and no way
of creating any, what does it mean to say a tag is undefined?

                                  -Richard Kelsey