John Cowan dropped the following bad news:
> >> Dude, you have a hold of the Tar Baby here. R6RS and R7RS libraries
> >> can't be the result of a macro, neither as a whole nor in part. All
> >> you've done is trade off one set of portability breakers for another.
> >
I said:
> > Ugh. In that case
> David A. Wheeler scripsit:
> > What do you think x'x *should* mean? That's incredibly ugly!
On Thu, 5 Dec 2013 13:08:53 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Its meaning is specifically left up to the implementation. Apostrophe
> is neither a (required to be treated as part of the
> identifier) nor a
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 10:10 PM, David A. Wheeler
wrote:
> John Cowan:
>> Dude, you have a hold of the Tar Baby here. R6RS and R7RS libraries
>> can't be the result of a macro, neither as a whole nor in part. All
>> you've done is trade off one set of portability breakers for another.
>
> Ugh. I
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:02 AM, David A. Wheeler
wrote:
> Alan: This redefines raise/guard for all guiles, even if it's already
> available.
> It should probably only do that for guile < 1.8, and should otherwise yank in
> the real R6RS handler. Do you agree? If so, could you add that magic,
David A. Wheeler scripsit:
> What do you think x'x *should* mean? That's incredibly ugly!
Its meaning is specifically left up to the implementation. Apostrophe
is neither a (required to be treated as part of the
identifier) nor a (required to be treated as not part of
the identifier). Its ge
On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 13:14:34 +0100, "Jörg F. Wittenberger"
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> it's beginning to annoy me: normal Scheme readers treat quote and
> quasiquote symbols as terminating charachters when reading symbols.
>
> With the "readable reader" they suddenly become part of a symbol. Tha
Hi all,
it's beginning to annoy me: normal Scheme readers treat quote and
quasiquote symbols as terminating charachters when reading symbols.
With the "readable reader" they suddenly become part of a symbol. That's
all rather confusing and causes so much incompatibility.
Its this really intend
