[r6rs-discuss] an essay on language design

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 20:14:03 -0400

Aubrey Jaffer scripsit:

> I received the totality of your essay both times through email. The
> only quirk was that line 435, "From page 18:", comes through as ">From
> page 18:".

That is done because lines beginning "From " (the colon is irrelevant)
serve as intermessage delimiters in classic Unix mbox (aka Eudora,
aka Netscape, aka Thunderbird) format. Mutilating the "F" in some
way eliminates the risk of splitting one message into two.

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