On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Joe Marshall <jmarsh...@alum.mit.edu> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Chris Hanson <c...@chris-hanson.org> 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 how would that wonderfulness affect this situation? What alternative would you propose? _______________________________________________ MIT-Scheme-devel mailing list MIT-Scheme-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/mit-scheme-devel
