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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>
Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [r6rs] #\x0 is a perfectly valid character datum representation
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:36:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3pqzk9l7b.fsf@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <808600.67090.qm@web37908.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (Mike Gran's message of "Mon, 21 Jun 2010 13:27:36 -0700 (PDT)")

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the explanation :-)

On Mon 21 Jun 2010 22:27, Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> writes:

> r6rs hex *character* escapes and Guile 1.8.x octal character escapes
> could logically coexist without confusion.

Let's do that. Shall you, or shall I?

> But, it might be confusing to have r6rs hex character escapes
> that work by default while r6rs string escapes don't work by 
> default.

Well, we'll document this then, and perhaps revisit this in a couple
years.

Andy
-- 
http://wingolog.org/



  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-21 20:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-21  8:12 [r6rs] #\x0 is a perfectly valid character datum representation Marco Maggi
2010-06-21 19:26 ` Andy Wingo
2010-06-21 20:27   ` Mike Gran
2010-06-21 20:36     ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2010-06-21 20:42       ` Mike Gran
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-07-17 11:22 Mike Gran
2010-07-17 11:38 ` Andy Wingo

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