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From: "Bill Schottstaedt" <bil@ccrma.Stanford.EDU>
To: bug-guile@gnu.org
Subject: 0e as identifier
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 04:45:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100102124123.M26871@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> (raw)

I believe r5rs says an identifier can't start with a digit, but
guile allows it to:

scheme@(guile-user)> (symbol? (make-symbol "0"))
#t
scheme@(guile-user)> (symbol->string (make-symbol "0"))
"0"
scheme@(guile-user)> (keyword? (symbol->keyword (string->symbol "0")))
#t
scheme@(guile-user)> (symbol? (string->symbol "0e0"))
#t

which leads one naively to:

scheme@(guile-user)> (let ((0e 1)) 0e)
1
scheme@(guile-user)> (let ((0e0 1)) 0e0)
<error printout>

Not a bug, I guess, but not very pretty.

(r6rs says an identifier "begins with a character that cannot 
begin a representation of a number object."  I think they meant 
"a sequence of characters").





             reply	other threads:[~2010-01-02 12:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-02 12:45 Bill Schottstaedt [this message]
2010-01-03 11:52 ` 0e as identifier Andy Wingo
2010-01-03 13:56   ` Bill Schottstaedt

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