On Wed, 9 Sep 2009, Peter Bex wrote: > I'm not familiar with the CL syntax, but I also really appreciate this > feature. It makes a lot of sense too, since it makes it possible to > enter any kind of string as symbol literal. This means that if you > can do (string->symbol <something>), you can also type in <something> > and get the symbol.
This, however, makes it difficult to write program transformers (for example macro expanders), that need to insert generated symbols for which the requirement is that they cannot be typed in user programs. Andre _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
