Brian Harvey scripsit: > Actually, I don't think these two expressions have the same result at all. > The second one will sit silently waiting for a matching close parenthesis. > :-)
Quite right. It's very annoying that R6RS chose to use ; as the delimiter for escape sequences in identifiers. \(<exact-integer>) would have been much more Schemey, giving us \(#x3bb), only two silly characters longer. -- Barry gules and argent of seven and six, John Cowan on a canton azure fifty molets of the second. [email protected] --blazoning the U.S. flag http://www.ccil.org/~cowan _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
