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Final comments, mostly editorial John Cowan (27 Nov 2013 23:59 UTC)
Re: Final comments, mostly editorial Per Bothner (28 Nov 2013 03:52 UTC)
Re: Final comments, mostly editorial John Cowan (28 Nov 2013 04:07 UTC)
Re: Final comments, mostly editorial John Cowan (28 Nov 2013 04:10 UTC)
Re: Final comments, mostly editorial Per Bothner (28 Nov 2013 04:46 UTC)
Re: Final comments, mostly editorial John Cowan (28 Nov 2013 04:51 UTC)
Re: Final comments, mostly editorial Per Bothner (07 Dec 2013 01:24 UTC)
Re: Final comments, mostly editorial John Cowan (07 Dec 2013 19:24 UTC)
Re: Final comments, mostly editorial Per Bothner (08 Dec 2013 08:37 UTC)
Re: Final comments, mostly editorial John Cowan (08 Dec 2013 17:13 UTC)
Re: Final comments, mostly editorial Per Bothner (08 Dec 2013 20:27 UTC)
Re: Final comments, mostly editorial John Cowan (08 Dec 2013 23:23 UTC)
Re: Final comments, mostly editorial Per Bothner 08 Dec 2013 08:36 UTC 
On 12/07/2013 11:24 AM, John Cowan wrote:
> Per Bothner scripsit (reordered):
>
>> Still mulling how to handle "]]>".
>>
>> Perhaps a warning is a reasonable compromise.  In the SRFI, perhaps
>> we could add:
>>
>> The XML and HTML standards (up through HTML 4.x) do not allow the
>> literal text
>> "]]> in element content - instead it should be escaped as in "]]>".
>> This is for historical reasons of SGML-compatibility.
>> An implementation SHOULD warn if literal "]]>" is seen.
>
> Strengthen this to "MUST warn" and I can live with it, though I would
> still prefer to make it an error.

I don't think it is possible to require warnings in a Scheme specification.
Consider a program calling read then eval.  There is no place for warnings
to be displayed.
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