From: John Cowan <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [r6rs-discuss] Proposed features for small Scheme, part 4B: 
case-sensitivity
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 11:51:26 -0400

> The R6RS rationale says that this is "a popular choice" among R5RS
> implementations.  To my mind, what is popular and not obviously broken
> should be a candidate for standardization, so I have added |...| 
> to the lexical syntax features at http://tinyurl.com/thing-one.

Just a remainder of a small detail: We'll need to clearify
whether |...| only escapes an entire symbol or it can escape
a part of a symbol.
That is, should |foo|n|baz| be parsed as three symbols,
foo, n, and baz, or a single symbol foonbaz?
CL uses the latter.  Gauche uses the former.  

--shiro


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