[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Syntactic datums and datum values

From: Andre van Tonder <andre>
Date: Wed Mar 28 11:02:31 2007

On Wed, 28 Mar 2007, Michael Sperber wrote:

>> * but the datum value corresponding to a
>> syntactic datum is uniquely determined.
>>
>> I also find this confusing. Clearly this cannot mean uniqueness with
>> respect to eq? Does this mean uniqueness with respect to equal? ?
>
> No. It means what it says: "uniquely determined" isn't quite the same
> thing as "unique".

I guess I don't understand this. If it is not the same, how is it different?
The way I read the text is that the syntactic datum determines a unique datum
value, but now you seem to be saying that this unique datum value is not
unique!?

Regards
Andre
Received on Wed Mar 28 2007 - 11:01:55 UTC