Re: The meaning of braces in various Schemes
David A. Wheeler 05 Sep 2012 11:50 UTC
John Cowan:
> http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/wiki/BracketsBraces shows the meaning
> of square brackets and curly braces in my Scheme test suite, which
> currently includes 45 implementations. Only Chibi and RScheme currently
> do something special with braces; the other implementations treat them
> as either synonyms for parentheses, lexical syntax errors, or identifier
> characters.
Wow! That is awesome research, thank you very much. I think a summary of that should go into the SRFI rationale (with credit), that's important information.
--- David A. Wheeler