[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] please make square brackets more useful

From: John Cowan <cowan>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:37:18 -0400

William D Clinger scripsit:

> The problem with that argument is that square brackets
> have been used for a wide variety of purposes. The
> current draft R6RS proposes to standardize on the most
> trivial and redundant of those uses, and to forbid all
> of the truly useful things that have been done with
> square brackets.

It doesn't forbid other uses; it merely requires you to flag
code which uses them with a #! quodlibet. That allows an
implementation to provide various different meanings of [].

(Of course, implementations can also provide non-conformant modes
of operation.)

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He played King Lear as though           John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org>
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