Dear guilers,
I’m playing with syntaxes as first-class objects, and I notice that the
syntax source location is ambiguous:
(syntax-case
(call-with-input-string "(a\r b)" read-syntax) ()
((a b)
(values (syntax-source #'a) (syntax-source #'b))))
=>
$1 = ((line . 0) (column . 1))
$2 = ((line . 0) (column . 1))
This is obviously because of #\return.
I am trying to use the guile reader to read scheme comments, in
addition to the syntax elements. I know with syntax-source where a
syntax object starts, and I can know where it ends by using a spying
soft port and re-reading it. However, the #\return ambiguity makes all
my efforts pointless.
In (system base lalr), the source location contains a filename, line
and column, but also an offset and length. However, these last 2 get
dropped in source-location->source-properties. I could not find out
whether this is relevant to read-syntax.
So, is there a way to track source offset and length for syntax
objects?
Best regards,
Vivien
