On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 1:57 AM, Ray Dillinger <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/13/2012 02:27 AM, Peter Bex wrote: > >> See above. Maybe not necessarily source code, but whenever you want >> to serialize arbitrary s-expressions you don't want to have to bother >> with the idea "can this be written at all?". That's an arbitrary >> limitation that serves no useful purpose. > > Agreed, there should be a way to read and write them. But that's > been required in every standard, for a long time. > > My question was a step back from that; it was whether it is > necessary to specify a particular syntax for them to be > read and written in.
Yes, I think so. Lack of a standardized syntax for basic data types would hinder interoperability, such as sexp-based formats or RPCs, especially in projects like Snow. -- Alex _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
