Sam TH scripsit: > Scribble would be vastly less useful if it wasn't used via `read'.
The purpose of "read" is to read S-expressions in the Scheme language. Why can't mixed Scheme and Scribble be read through an implementation-specific (or even SRFI-based) "read-scheme-and-scribble" procedure? > It would seem like a mistake to apply arbitrary restrictions to a > useful feature, especially since small Scheme is supposed to be > compatible with large Scheme, were this problem will presumably have > to be tackled. So it will, but compatibility means source-code compatibility only. It does not mean that everything in large Scheme has to be accomplished by writing code in small Scheme, any more than the R6RS libraries can be rewritten as Scheme code using the base library. -- John Cowan [email protected] http://ccil.org/~cowan If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. --Isaac Newton _______________________________________________ r6rs-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.r6rs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/r6rs-discuss
