On 6/20/07, AndrevanTonder <andre at het.brown.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, William D Clinger wrote, quoting Jonathan Reese:
>
> > Define
> > [a b c] to be a special reader syntax for the four-element list
> > (*square-bracketed* a b c)
This also requires that the various special forms defined in the R6RS
would need to specify if they allowed or required square brackets.
For example, if it was decided that cond required square brackets, it
would be much harder to port existing R5RS code to R6RS. If it was
decided the other way, the large quantities of code written currently
with square brackets could not be made to work with R6RS.
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sam th
samth at ccs.neu.edu
Received on Wed Jun 20 2007 - 08:06:12 UTC