[r6rs-discuss] perhaps i should be formal, but....

From: Thomas Lord <lord>
Date: Wed Mar 14 17:04:05 2007

John Cowan wrote:
> Thomas Lord scripsit:
>
>
>> but allowing surrogates per se is not the main point.
>>
>
> In that case, how about a modest compromise whereby implementations
> are not permitted to provide characters with ordinal values
> between #xD800 and #xD8FF, but are allowed to provide ones with
> values greater than #x10FFF? For example, Chicken currently allows
> values up to #1FFFFF.
>


That is tempting in some ways but I'll offer reasons to the contrary
in the formal. Again, to be clear, I have no problem with an
implementation that contains such a restriction.


>
>> I'm seeing if I can crank out a formal comment that makes
>> the larger case before tomorrow's deadline (we'll see).
>>
>
> I look forward to it.
>
>

Hopefully!

(back to work on it....)

-t
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