From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wolfgang J Moeller Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: scm_i_print_symbol_name() in libguile/print.c ... Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:08:51 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1302527756 29621 80.91.229.12 (11 Apr 2011 13:15:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:15:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org, Wolfgang J Moeller To: Andy Wingo Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 11 15:15:50 2011 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 1Q9Gy5-00035Y-OC for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:15:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52967 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q9Gy1-00015u-5a for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:15:45 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50765 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q9Gxj-000143-MS for bug-guile@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:15:32 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9Gxe-00064m-Pm for bug-guile@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:15:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-boxes.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.22]:48270) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9Gxe-00064c-IG for bug-guile@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:15:22 -0400 Original-Received: from gwdw03.gwdg.de ([134.76.5.10]) by mailer.gwdg.de with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Q9Gs5-0005AP-SV; Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:09:37 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: (clean) by exiscan+sophie X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Received-From: 134.76.10.22 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:5444 Archived-At: On Mon, 11 Apr 2011, Andy Wingo wrote: >[...] > > (*) Apparently, reading a "weird" symbol whose name contains "}#" > > isn't provided for. > > Also; irritating. Relatedly it does not seem that Guile supports R6RS > hex escapes in symbols. I guess the right thing to do is to allow for > R6RS hex escapes in symbols, and escape '}', along with anything that's > not a printable character. Having any sort of escapes mixed with #{ }# notation would be incompatible - maybe you ought no longer generate #{ }# on output, but switch to R6RS escapes throughout. Since there has been (in my understanding) no way to read symbols containing "}#" so far, just keep the "transparent" treatment of those guile-private brackets on input. Best regards, Wolfgang J. Moeller, Tel. +49 551 47361, wjmheenes.com 37085 Goettingen, Germany | Disclaimer: No claim intended! http://www.wjmoeller.de/ -+-------- http://www.heenes.com/