[r6rs-discuss] Hashes in the number syntax

From: William D Clinger <will>
Date: Mon Nov 20 14:07:21 2006

I am posting this as an individual member of the Scheme
community. I am not speaking for the R6RS editors.

Ben Goetter wrote:
> I searched an additional ~140Mb of Scheme source. My search did not
> include PLaNeT, but did include scmutils and MIT Scheme, both of MIT. I
> also searched /Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics/, a
> MIT engineering text that uses Scheme. Nowhere did I find hash-number
> notation.

Thank you for doing this.

> I believe that nobody uses this notation, and that it should be dropped
> from R6.

Sounds good to me. If anyone wants to object to dropping
that notation, now (i.e. before the next draft comes out)
might be a good time.

Will
Received on Mon Nov 20 2006 - 14:07:16 UTC