On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Chris Hanson <[email protected]> wrote: > In which case READ should be told what it is supposed to do, or the > thing you're reading should also be marked. > > The syntax marker isn't a per-file marker, it's a marker of an input > stream. READ should have defaults that it uses in the absence of any > stream markers.
Wouldn't it be considered metadata? Then an explicit marker would mean that you have in-band metadata (with all the wonderfulness that entails). > And no, there isn't currently a standard mechanism for doing any of > this. But there should be. Want to implement one? I'm thinking about it. -- ~jrm _______________________________________________ MIT-Scheme-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/mit-scheme-devel
