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From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: 38398@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#38398: non-obvious SCM_EOF_VAL rationale
Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 13:34:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191127123404.GE30482@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191127120534.i6okeasqcaodpae6@fysh.org>

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On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 12:05:34PM +0000, Zefram via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language wrote:

[...]

> But please don't get sidetracked.  This wasn't a feature request for
> "#eof" [...]

To be fair, you contributed strongly to this side-tracking. By waving
a big red flag:

  "This poor design precludes RnRS specifying read syntax for any
   EOF object [...]"

you yourself drew attention to the underlying issues of the design
instead of keeping things focused to the documentation.

I agree that the doc could improve in this case...

Cheers
-- tomás

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      reply	other threads:[~2019-11-27 12:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-27  7:44 bug#38398: non-obvious SCM_EOF_VAL rationale Zefram via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2019-11-27  8:55 ` John Cowan
2019-11-27 12:05   ` Zefram via Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language
2019-11-27 12:34     ` tomas [this message]

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