From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andy Wingo Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: [r6rs] #\x0 is a perfectly valid character datum representation Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:36:56 +0200 Message-ID: References: <8739wg4xe0.fsf@rapitore.luna> <808600.67090.qm@web37908.mail.mud.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1277152571 17261 80.91.229.12 (21 Jun 2010 20:36:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:36:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org To: Mike Gran Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 21 22:36:09 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 1OQniy-0006Zm-CH for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 22:36:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42387 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OQnix-0008OP-HB for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:36:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49383 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OQnio-0008N6-8g for bug-guile@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:35:59 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OQnin-0001yR-3O for bug-guile@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:35:58 -0400 Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com ([208.72.237.25]:61507 helo=sasl.smtp.pobox.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OQnin-0001xM-0J for bug-guile@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:35:57 -0400 Original-Received: from sasl.smtp.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E4BE1B29; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:35:51 -0400 (EDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; s=sasl; bh=97+47N64V8uw g/ZjnWlF1U13uHY=; b=bXRuwH2bmtY0eLuQohCYzYWYHfnu+vZ1xYKXiTgtS4Ch FNJ4ExkK8YWkdYQxjn491G7xAxot6iyrLF9xy0OUVA8NDzphwBizqXp0ekFlNcI8 3vHxQ6K1OogOoWffNq66GAazhmTrMcabTACh0MJ2b7RV6FTw7jz2a2GzY35RFts= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=sasl; b=NnNXbb WIzNAlH8TGnFKbXSsjmfYGrMoMMKjtxdE0sE9TJ8oa/fLtzPkB3/YrdK7kGj1yOd k/dwOn53hP9xSz83+TOT2K0ZmMFrPM/1Abqzpf0TQN0hxbksxuXsF7+NRaYqB8A9 LjxOMKnlivUAO/a9LT5rq8FjYmnFcHj+ektFU= Original-Received: from a-pb-sasl-quonix. (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08D411B28; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:35:49 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from unquote (unknown [83.32.68.226]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 514401B27; Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:35:46 -0400 (EDT) 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)") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.92 (gnu/linux) X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 939430A2-7D74-11DF-907E-9056EE7EF46B-02397024!a-pb-sasl-quonix.pobox.com X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) 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:4698 Archived-At: Hi Mike, Thanks for the explanation :-) On Mon 21 Jun 2010 22:27, Mike Gran 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=C2=A0by default while r6rs string escapes don't work by=20 > default. Well, we'll document this then, and perhaps revisit this in a couple years. Andy --=20 http://wingolog.org/