[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] please repair and simplify lexical syntax

From: Michael Sperber <sperber>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 08:39:16 +0200

William D Clinger <will at ccs.neu.edu> writes:

> For example, I count well over 800,000 distinct errors in the current
> reference implementation of get-datum, but its author does not agree
> that these are errors [private communication].

As I am the author of the current reference implementation, that would
be me. I don't recall not agreeing that "these are errors". My
outgoing archive recalls me writing, among other things, in response to
a note from you:

>> It doesn't use `char-general-category', but instead a table especially
>> generated for the characters in an identifier. I'll fix the problem.
>> Thanks for the report!

In case this isn't clear enough, for the record: There are bugs in the
current reference implementation of the reader---due to my incompetence,
no doubt, but also due to the fact that I had only about two hours to
hack the R5RS reader from Scheme 48.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
Friede, V?lkerverst?ndigung und ?berhaupt blabla
Received on Wed Jun 20 2007 - 02:39:16 UTC

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