A survey to see what other implementations use #"..." for would be useful. My impression is that it is rarely used. Given that eggs will be broken, whichever way the working group decides, I believe it is better to reduce the amount of special characters to allow maximum flexibility for naming in the identifier lexical space. Also, given the fact that the working group believes it is necessary to standardize literal symbols and not bytestrings, it is further evidence that #"..." for symbols should be considered a higher priority use.
Arthur On 3/12/12 10:08 PM, Alex Shinn wrote: > #"..." is a bytestring in Racket, and possibly some other > implementations. Gauche has string extensions for #*"..." > and #`...` (which is also quasisyntax in R6RS). #|...| is > used by SRFI-30 and the current draft. > > There are not a whole lot of character sequences left, > though that in itself is an argument not to take too many > just for string escapes. > _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
