Re: Ready to finalize SRFI 38.
Marc Feeley 01 Mar 2003 00:21 UTC
> Hi.
>
> I'm writing to let everyone know that I'm ready to finalize SRFI-38
> at this point. Evidently nobody has any problems with the current
> document, or if so they've been keeping it to themselves, so I think
> it's ready to move into final status now.
I took a quick last look and found something unexpected:
<indexnum> --> <digit 10>+ | <radix R> <digit R>+
Why does <indexnum> allow a radix? When is such a thing useful? This
is a problem for Gambit because it allows symbols to start with a "##"
prefix. So for example ##o12# is a symbol, but SRFI-38 would treat
this as if it were #10# . Is there any rationale for this?
Marc