[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Vector size in the read syntax

From: Aubrey Jaffer <agj>
Date: Thu Oct 26 13:25:52 2006

 | From: William D Clinger <will_at_ccs.neu.edu>
 | Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 12:07:01 -0400
 |
 | I am posting this as an individual member of the Scheme
 | community. I am not speaking for the R6RS editors, and
 | this message should not be confused with the editors'
 | eventual formal response.
 |
 | Aubrey Jaffer wrote:
 | > What problem does this solve?
 |
 | It is one of the two most obvious solutions to the portability
 | problem I identified in my earlier response: some systems, by
 | default, write vectors using a notation that other systems cannot
 | read.

Thanks for answering this. I had thought that WRITE was required to
generate Scheme syntax for vectors; but I can't find it in R5RS.
Received on Thu Oct 26 2006 - 13:25:15 UTC