[R6RS] termination
Michael Sperber
sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Sun Sep 3 14:42:47 EDT 2006
dyb at cs.indiana.edu writes:
> lex.tex contains the following statement:
>
> \vest Lexemes that require implicit termination (identifiers, numbers,
> and dot) may be terminated by any \meta{delimiter}, but not
> necessarily by anything else. \meta{Character} and \meta{boolean}
> must be terminated by a \meta{delimiter} or by the end of the input.
>
> Can't identifers, numbers, and dot be terminated by the end of input?
You're right, but I'm hesitant to change the first sentence as it's
straight from R5RS. I need the help of a native speaker here: What
does "not necessarily by anything else" mean? Is that a burden on the
user or on the implementation? Maybe you could suggest a replacement.
--
Cheers =8-} Mike
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