[R6RS] R6RS Unicode SRFI controversial issues
dyb at cs.indiana.edu
dyb
Fri Jun 17 19:00:27 EDT 2005
Common Lisp allows newlines in characters, treats them as newlines,
and doesn't ignore whitespace after \<newline>. You may be thinking of
Common Lisp format, which treats ~<newline> as you propose for \<newline>
(with various options for suppressing or not suppressing the newline
and whitespace that follows, of course). I don't mind \<newline> having
the behavior you suggest. I'd prefer that we not disallow newlines in
strings, but don't feel strongly about it.
Why not allow \o<o><o><o> for octal character notation in both strings
and characters? We could still allow \<o><o><o> as well for strings.
I would like for all characters to be followd by a delimiter, so that,
for example, #\s3 is an error. Requiring all characters to be delimited
also helps leave open future extensions.
Your other suggestions are okay with me.
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