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Minor last-minute issues John Cowan (18 Sep 2012 17:45 UTC)
Re: Minor last-minute issues Per Bothner (18 Sep 2012 18:40 UTC)
Re: Minor last-minute issues John Cowan (18 Sep 2012 18:59 UTC)
Re: Minor last-minute issues David A. Wheeler (18 Sep 2012 21:32 UTC)
Re: Minor last-minute issues Per Bothner (18 Sep 2012 21:54 UTC)
Re: Minor last-minute issues David A. Wheeler (19 Sep 2012 00:03 UTC)
Re: Minor last-minute issues Per Bothner (19 Sep 2012 00:46 UTC)
Re: Minor last-minute issues Alan Manuel Gloria (19 Sep 2012 01:16 UTC)
Re: Minor last-minute issues John Cowan (19 Sep 2012 02:22 UTC)
Re: Minor last-minute issues Alan Manuel Gloria (19 Sep 2012 12:27 UTC)
Re: Minor last-minute issues David A. Wheeler (19 Sep 2012 13:44 UTC)

Minor last-minute issues John Cowan 18 Sep 2012 17:45 UTC

Ticket #486 to make braces delimiters in R7RS failed for lack of a
second, so SRFI-105 needs to say explicitly that they are delimiters.
In particular, in the n-expression {foo}{bar baz} the implementation
must not treat "foo}{bar" as an identifier.

I mentioned this before but it seems to have gotten lost: I recommend
that [foo bar] in c-expressions be treated as ($bracket-list$ foo bar)
rather than (bracketaccess foo bar).  This is compatible with Kawa,
which is the only Scheme in my test suite to treat square brackets in
this way.  In FemtoLisp and Rep, they are used for vector datums; in
all other Schemes, they are synonyms for parentheses per R6RS, regular
identifier characters, or lexical syntax errors.

In any case, $bracket-list$ or bracketaccess should be specified as
being like nfx: no definition by default.

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other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.  --Edsger Dijkstra