>> A survey to see what other implementations use #"..." for would be >> useful. My impression is that it is rarely used. > > It is rarely used. Of my 39 test Schemes, only Racket, Gambit, Larceny, > IronScheme, Shoe, and and XLisp do something other than error out as > soon as they see #" -- but in most of these cases, I don't know what they > are actually doing.
Unless my memory is faulty, Dylan uses #"..." for symbols. Dylan ain't Scheme, but then Common Lisp ain't Scheme either. Regards, Alan _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
