From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Gran Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: [bug #31680] R6RS string literal intraline whitespace removal Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:51:51 +0000 Message-ID: <20101118-215151.sv73118.97070@savannah.gnu.org> References: <20101117-131540.sv2373.30272@savannah.gnu.org> <20101118-150512.sv73118.96725@savannah.gnu.org> <20101118-185600.sv20118.39996@savannah.gnu.org> <20101118-204517.sv2373.2325@savannah.gnu.org> <20101118-202400.sv20118.12854@savannah.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1290117590 17828 80.91.229.12 (18 Nov 2010 21:59:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:59:50 +0000 (UTC) To: Andy Wingo , =?UTF-8?B?R8O2cmFu?= Weinholt , Mike Gran , bug-guile@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 18 22:59:45 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PJCW6-0003SC-36 for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 22:59:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33645 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJCW5-00023o-G9 for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:59:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=57328 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PJCVp-0001zG-J7 for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:59:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJCOb-00053k-38 for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:51:57 -0500 Original-Received: from colonialone.fsf.org ([140.186.70.51]:43809 helo=internal.in.savannah.gnu.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PJCOb-00053e-0x for bug-guile@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 16:51:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [10.1.0.103] (helo=frontend.in.savannah.gnu.org) by internal.in.savannah.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PJCOV-0008C2-Le; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:51:51 +0000 Original-Received: from www-data by frontend.in.savannah.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PJCOV-0002Ws-HG; Thu, 18 Nov 2010 21:51:51 +0000 X-Savane-Server: savannah.gnu.org:443 [10.1.0.103] X-Savane-Project: guile X-Savane-Tracker: bugs X-Savane-Item-ID: 31680 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.648; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET4.0C; .NET4.0E) X-Apparently-From: 207.8.91.2 (Savane authenticated user mike121) In-Reply-To: <20101118-202400.sv20118.12854@savannah.gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:4873 Archived-At: Follow-up Comment #5, bug #31680 (project guile): > I think the deal is that all (?) of the other escapes can be > dealt with via the equivalent of a `case' expression. This > one requires a property lookup. It's not as nice. > Also note the thread at > http://lists.r6rs.org/pipermail/r6rs-discuss/2010-November/006146.html. > Is there a use case for allowing intraline spaces before > the newline? Disallowing that would eliminate a state > in the parser. I don't think there is a valid use case for allowing that initial intraline space. If (according to the discussion in the R6RS list) the intention was to work around broken editors, those bugs should be fixed with the editors, and not become workarounds enshrined in a language spec. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: _______________________________________________ Message sent via/by Savannah http://savannah.gnu.org/