On Fri, 05 May 2023 16:35 Ludovic Courtès <civo...@toot.aquilenet.fr> wrote: > (call-with-input-string "(. wtf?)" read) > > ⇒ wtf? > > #Guile #Scheme
Hey!^W Sorry... Dear Guile developer, your tweet made me deeply concerned. Is it a sign that this behaviour is going to be ‘fixed’ eventually? Besides actually being (imho) the only right thing to do: explanation below aside, just compare: #+begin_src scheme (define (fu bar) ...) (λ (bar) ...) (define (fu . quux) ...) (λ (. quux) ...) #+end_src it is required for compatibility with elisp; where itʼs not only observed de-facto: #+begin_src elisp '(. foo) ;; ⇒ foo #+end_src but explicitly documented in (info "(elisp) Dotted Pair Notation") as well: #+begin_quote As a somewhat peculiar side effect of ‘(a b . c)’ and ‘(a . (b . c))’ being equivalent, for consistency this means that if you replace ‘b’ here with the empty sequence, then it follows that ‘(a . c)’ and ‘(a . ( . c))’ are equivalent, too. This also means that ‘( . c)’ is equivalent to ‘c’, but this is seldom used. #+end_quote
