On Sun, Oct 11, 2020 at 4:39 AM Daphne Preston-Kendal <xxxxxx@nonceword.org> wrote:

In R7RS they could have different names. (scheme bytestring-notation)
and (scheme bytestring), for instance. (But does cond-expand even make
sense for reader notation? Surely it’d cause a reader error in any
case?)

Exactly so.  Or rather if the lexical syntax was understood, all would be well, but if it was not, you'd get a reader error even if all instances of #u8"..." were protected by cond-expand.

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