Follow-up Comment #5, bug #31680 (project guile): > I think the deal is that all (?) of the other escapes can be > dealt with via the equivalent of a `case' expression. This > one requires a property lookup. It's not as nice.
> Also note the thread at > http://lists.r6rs.org/pipermail/r6rs-discuss/2010-November/006146.html. > Is there a use case for allowing intraline spaces before > the newline? Disallowing that would eliminate a state > in the parser. I don't think there is a valid use case for allowing that initial intraline space. If (according to the discussion in the R6RS list) the intention was to work around broken editors, those bugs should be fixed with the editors, and not become workarounds enshrined in a language spec. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?31680> _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/
