Missing "tag" in EBNF? Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (11 Apr 2026 16:19 UTC)
Re: Missing "tag" in EBNF? John Cowan (11 Apr 2026 18:45 UTC)
Re: Missing "tag" in EBNF? Arthur A. Gleckler (11 Apr 2026 19:00 UTC)
Re: Missing "tag" in EBNF? John Cowan (11 Apr 2026 19:47 UTC)
Re: Missing "tag" in EBNF? Peter McGoron (11 Apr 2026 19:52 UTC)
Re: Missing "tag" in EBNF? Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (11 Apr 2026 19:52 UTC)
Re: Missing "tag" in EBNF? Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (11 Apr 2026 20:02 UTC)
Re: Missing "tag" in EBNF? John Cowan (11 Apr 2026 20:30 UTC)
Re: Missing "tag" in EBNF? Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe (11 Apr 2026 21:45 UTC)
Re: Missing "tag" in EBNF? John Cowan (11 Apr 2026 23:06 UTC)

Re: Missing "tag" in EBNF? John Cowan 11 Apr 2026 18:44 UTC

An oversight, or more correctly a brain fart.  The line should read:

array-literal ::= "#a" tag bounds datum

Arthur, can you make this correction?  Thanks.

On Sat, Apr 11, 2026 at 12:19 PM Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe
<xxxxxx@sigwinch.xyz> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm struggling to understand the "tag" syntax of this SRFI.  The
> informal discussion of reader syntax says that "#a or #A [is]
> immediately followed by a tag that specifies the type of the
> elements of the array."  Yet the EBNF grammar has
>
>     array-literal ::= "#a" bounds datum
>
> and includes no production for a tag component.  Is this an oversight,
> or have I misunderstood?
>
> Wolfgang
>
> --
> Wolfgang Corcoran-Mathe  <xxxxxx@sigwinch.xyz>