[R6RS] #!r6rs

Michael Sperber sperber at informatik.uni-tuebingen.de
Thu Jan 18 13:59:27 EST 2007


"R. Kent Dybvig" <dyb at cs.indiana.edu> writes:

>> Is it really worth having yet another kind of comment?  I.e., is the
>> tiny ambiguity #;r6rs (or #|r6rs|#, but I suspect the former is easier
>> on the implementors) would carry really worth it?
>
> Yes.  #!r6rs and #!whatever are not comments.

By the current spec #!r6rs *is* a comment.  It seems its primary value
would only come in if it distinguished R6RS from another language.
But, as it's not mandatory, it can't do that reliably, unless the
other language requires a marker such as #!r6rs.

-- 
Cheers =8-} Mike
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