Re: Syntax for symbols is more permissive than R6RS

2009-04-27 Thread Neil Jerram
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes: > I would be inclined to not change the reader's default behavior, i.e., > to remain at least as permissive as in 1.8, so as to not cause > gratuitous incompatibility (we could even add unit tests to make sure we > don't remove them inadvertently.) > > Howeve

Re: Syntax for symbols is more permissive than R6RS

2009-04-24 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi! Mike Gran writes: > I was poking around the reader while working on the Unicode stuff, and I > found that there aren't checks for a lot of symbol names that R6RS > considers to be invalid. It's actually more permissive than R5RS as well. For instance, `1+' and `1-' are not valid R5RS ident

Syntax for symbols is more permissive than R6RS

2009-04-24 Thread Mike Gran
Hi, I was poking around the reader while working on the Unicode stuff, and I found that there aren't checks for a lot of symbol names that R6RS considers to be invalid. The following line has 11 dodgy but not invalid variable names: + - ... 00A @ [ \ ] { | } They can be strung togeth