[plt-scheme] . nitpick .

From: Jos Koot (jos.koot at telefonica.net)
Date: Sun Jun 10 12:46:53 EDT 2007

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grant Rettke" <grettke at acm.org>
To: "Jos Koot" <jos.koot at telefonica.net>
Cc: "Anton van Straaten" <anton at appsolutions.com>; "PLT Scheme" 
<plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu>
Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 6:25 PM
Subject: Re: [plt-scheme] . nitpick .


>I wonder why there isn't a r5rs module.

But there is: (lib "r5rs" "lang")
Jos Koot


>
> On 6/10/07, Jos Koot <jos.koot at telefonica.net> wrote:
>> One could set (read-accept-dot #f) as default for language R5RS.
>> Adding (read-accept-dot #f) to .../collects/r5rs/lang.ss does the trick,
>> although another location may be more appropriate.
>> Jos koot
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Anton van Straaten" <anton at appsolutions.com>
>> To: "PLT Scheme" <plt-scheme at list.cs.brown.edu>
>> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 4:15 PM
>> Subject: [plt-scheme] . nitpick .
>>
>>
>> > Shouldn't the R5RS language level disallow the infix dot syntax?
>> >
>> > As seen in this message:
>> >
>> > http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.scheme/msg/40f19cb9863cf28d
>> >
>> > ...someone experimenting can get confused by the infix feature.  It would 
>> > be
>> > helpful to be able to respond to that by saying "that's an extension -- use
>> > the R5RS language level if you want to experiment with standard Scheme
>> > behavior".  But here, we can't say that.
>> >
>> > Anton
>> >
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