Per Bothner wrote:
> Thomas Lord wrote:
>>>
>>> Hence bucky bits are irrelevant to R6RS.
>>
>> Hmm.
>> http://sicp.ai.mit.edu/Fall-2003/manuals/scheme-7.5.5/doc/scheme_6.html
>
> Your point?
>
> "MIT Scheme uses a 16-bit character code with 5 bucky bits. Normally,
> Scheme uses the least significant 7 bits of the character code to
> contain the ASCII representation for the character."
>
> I think this just confirms my contention that characters with bucky bits
> are a hold-over from the old ASCII-only days.
You didn't quote the part where they talk about making room for
expansion to
international character sets.
Anyway, your point is apparently that, in your view, MIT Scheme 7.5.5
can't be turned
into R6 compliance without removing bucky-bit support, which I will venture
a guess, will reek havoc with edwin, for example.
As 5.92 stands, I'm not sure any of this is relevant for R6 either. I'm
at least equally not sure that R6 will have much to do with authentic
Scheme.
-t
Received on Mon Mar 19 2007 - 15:40:29 UTC