Brian C. Barnes scripsit:
> Being fairly new to scheme, I really don't have an opinion one way or the
> other, but as an implementor of a scheme system intended to be r6rs
> compatible (should it receive eventual ratification), I do have a question.
>
> '#\newline' is supposed to be a character constant, correct? There are
> operating systems that define "new line" to be multiple characters. How are
> those systems supposed to define the character "#\newline"?
Internally, R6RS Schemes use LF as the line separator, though any
of the six standard line separators (CR, LF, CR+LF, NEL, CR+NEL, U+2028)
are accepted on input. (This is the same convention as XML.)
Therefore, #\newline should be a synonym for #\linefeed.
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Received on Fri Jun 15 2007 - 21:34:49 UTC