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The meaning of braces in various Schemes John Cowan (05 Sep 2012 06:24 UTC)
Re: The meaning of braces in various Schemes David A. Wheeler (05 Sep 2012 11:50 UTC)
Re: The meaning of braces in various Schemes John Cowan (05 Sep 2012 17:20 UTC)
Do we NEED a marker at all? David A. Wheeler (05 Sep 2012 13:25 UTC)
Re: Do we NEED a marker at all? Jens Axel Søgaard (05 Sep 2012 20:42 UTC)
Re: Do we NEED a marker at all? Shiro Kawai (06 Sep 2012 04:27 UTC)
Re: Do we NEED a marker at all? Alan Manuel Gloria (06 Sep 2012 12:36 UTC)
Re: Do we NEED a marker at all? David A. Wheeler (06 Sep 2012 13:07 UTC)
Re: Do we NEED a marker at all? John Cowan (06 Sep 2012 17:09 UTC)
Re: The meaning of braces in various Schemes Donovan Kolbly (07 Sep 2012 02:12 UTC)
Re: The meaning of braces in various Schemes David A. Wheeler (07 Sep 2012 03:41 UTC)

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