External representation taylanbayirli@xxxxxx (10 Sep 2015 15:21 UTC)
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Re: External representation Arthur A. Gleckler (10 Sep 2015 15:24 UTC)
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Re: External representation Arthur A. Gleckler (10 Sep 2015 20:44 UTC)
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Re: External representation John Cowan (11 Sep 2015 13:04 UTC)
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Re: External representation Per Bothner (11 Sep 2015 14:05 UTC)
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Re: External representation Kevin Wortman (11 Sep 2015 19:10 UTC)
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Re: External representation Shiro Kawai (12 Sep 2015 02:04 UTC)
Re: External representation John Cowan (10 Sep 2015 16:30 UTC)
Re: External representation taylanbayirli@xxxxxx (10 Sep 2015 18:12 UTC)
Re: External representation John Cowan (10 Sep 2015 19:02 UTC)
Re: External representation Per Bothner (10 Sep 2015 21:25 UTC)
Re: External representation John Cowan (10 Sep 2015 21:52 UTC)

Re: External representation John Cowan 10 Sep 2015 19:02 UTC

Taylan Ulrich Bayırlı/Kammer scripsit:

> If 'read' doesn't understand it, it's not external representation, just
> a fancy macro.

I agree, but I don't think getting agreement on new standard lexical
syntax for this, that, and the other is going to be very practical.
If we had a hashtable tradition (and I'm glad we don't, it introduces
phasing problems), people would add lexical syntax as a matter of course.
But our standards can't even agree on lexical syntax for bytevectors!
There are no lexical syntax extensions that I can think of that are even
common among implementations, except those for syntax-case.

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