Re: Proposed grammar change: forbid lines with >1 n-expr that end with "."
John Cowan 27 Jul 2013 21:23 UTC
David A. Wheeler scripsit:
> Currently, in sweet-expressions, if a line has more than one neoteric-expression
> and the last expression is ".", the "." is interpreted as the symbol
> whose spelling is the single character ".". E.G.:
> quote .
> => (quote |.|)
>
> I propose making this an error instead, to improve error detection.
Very much +1. A misplaced single dot ought to be an error.
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