[r6rs-discuss] an essay on language design

From: Anton van Straaten <anton>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:16:01 -0400

Aubrey Jaffer wrote:
> 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:".
>
> Perhaps this is a problem with your mail reader interpreting the
> word "From" with a ":" after it at the beginning of a line as the
> start of a new message. This could be the case if the truncation
> happened after:
>
> ...
> <record name> will flow into arbitrary contexts. In
> other words, the rtd-flow analysis required by the
> 5.97 draft is already as bad as it could be, so my
> proposal can't possibly make it any worse.

Thanks, this appears to be correct. Please disregard my previous message.

I also received the entire message via email; it is only in the web
archives that the message is truncated. The message body was less than
25KB, so didn't reach any limit. Presumably the web archiving software
is truncating the message because of the embedded "From" line.

Anton
Received on Wed Jul 25 2007 - 23:16:01 UTC