Re: [racket] function of | in reader

2011-06-26 Thread Matthew Flatt
At Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:52:49 -0400, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > Matthew Flatt wrote at 06/26/2011 04:39 PM: > > A "|" never delimits in the sense of ending a symbol. > > Understood. I'm just looking for confirmation that this readtable "|" > can never be involved in the reading of anything other than

Re: [racket] function of | in reader

2011-06-26 Thread Neil Van Dyke
Matthew Flatt wrote at 06/26/2011 04:39 PM: A "|" never delimits in the sense of ending a symbol. Understood. I'm just looking for confirmation that this readtable "|" can never be involved in the reading of anything other than a symbol (or part of a symbol). At least, not with the default

Re: [racket] function of | in reader

2011-06-26 Thread Matthew Flatt
A "|" never delimits in the sense of ending a symbol. For example, 2|b|1 reads the same as 2b1 because the symbol continues after each "|". Is that the sense of "delimit" that you mean? At Sun, 26 Jun 2011 09:40:09 -0400, Neil Van Dyke wrote: > To amend that question: When reading Racket co

Re: [racket] function of | in reader

2011-06-26 Thread Neil Van Dyke
To amend that question: When reading Racket code, will "|" *always* delimit either a symbol or a substring of a symbol? Neil Van Dyke wrote at 06/26/2011 06:04 AM: When reading Racket code, will "|" *always* delimit a symbol, or can it cause something other than a symbol to be read? I thought

[racket] function of | in reader

2011-06-26 Thread Neil Van Dyke
When reading Racket code, will "|" *always* delimit a symbol, or can it cause something other than a symbol to be read? I thought "|" always delimited a symbol, but if so, then the documentation at "http://doc.racket-lang.org/reference/reader.html#(part._default-readtable-dispatch)" seems obt