Lexical syntax for boxes Lassi Kortela (09 Nov 2022 16:34 UTC)
Re: Lexical syntax for boxes Marc Feeley (09 Nov 2022 16:40 UTC)
Re: Lexical syntax for boxes Lassi Kortela (09 Nov 2022 16:48 UTC)
Re: Lexical syntax for boxes Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (09 Nov 2022 16:41 UTC)
Re: Lexical syntax for boxes Lassi Kortela (09 Nov 2022 16:56 UTC)
Re: Lexical syntax for boxes Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (09 Nov 2022 17:04 UTC)
Re: Lexical syntax for boxes Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (09 Nov 2022 17:12 UTC)
Re: Lexical syntax for boxes Lassi Kortela (09 Nov 2022 17:42 UTC)
Re: Lexical syntax for boxes Marc Feeley (09 Nov 2022 17:24 UTC)
Re: Lexical syntax for boxes Lassi Kortela (09 Nov 2022 17:26 UTC)
Re: Lexical syntax for boxes Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (09 Nov 2022 17:32 UTC)
Re: Lexical syntax for boxes Lassi Kortela (09 Nov 2022 17:54 UTC)
Re: Lexical syntax for boxes Marc Nieper-Wißkirchen (09 Nov 2022 18:55 UTC)

Re: Lexical syntax for boxes Lassi Kortela 09 Nov 2022 17:53 UTC

>> "A quote ' next to an implementation's name means the syntax is not
>> self-evaluating in that implementation, and must be quoted to form a
>> valid expression."

> That would still be a category error (categorial? categorical?).

Aha, because lexical syntax isn't "evaluated". It's read into datums
("forms" in Common Lisp parlance), and those are evaluated. If you got
the same datums from e.g. binary file, evaluation would work the same.

> Keep this sentence but next to a table with syntactic data representations.

The sole purpose of lexical syntax (apart from directives) is to
represent data, isn't it? Wouldn't the table of "syntactic data
representations" contain lots of duplication?