[racket] Parsing Numbers

At Wed, 4 Aug 2010 22:04:11 +0000 (GMT), Ewan Higgs wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've been playing with the number tower in Racket and I noticed it appears to 
> drift from the R5RS and R6RS standard. Now, I know the Racket rebrand grants 
> PLT 
> 
> Scheme to now drift from the standard, but I think this may actually be 
> unintentional. So let me know if I've misunderstood this.

Racket intentionally extends the syntax of numbers.

The Racket specification is here:

  http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/index.html

and the syntax of numbers is specifically here:

  http://docs.racket-lang.org/reference/reader.html#%28part._parse-number%29