From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Jerram Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: Syntax for symbols is more permissive than R6RS Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:26:09 +0100 Message-ID: <873abtj126.fsf@arudy.ossau.uklinux.net> References: <1240558064.3133.147.camel@localhost.localdomain> <874owexea0.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1240864035 30168 80.91.229.12 (27 Apr 2009 20:27:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:27:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org To: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 27 22:27:06 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LyXPs-0000mL-Tt for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:27:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42936 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LyXPq-0006UD-RI for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:27:02 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LyXPn-0006Ti-Cv for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:26:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LyXPi-0006T6-Jt for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:26:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43666 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LyXPi-0006T3-G4 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:26:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail3.uklinux.net ([80.84.72.33]:32799) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LyXPc-0004Db-BS; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 16:26:48 -0400 Original-Received: from arudy (host86-145-49-20.range86-145.btcentralplus.com [86.145.49.20]) by mail3.uklinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A8F51F8B58; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:26:11 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from arudy.ossau.uklinux.net (arudy [127.0.0.1]) by arudy (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EC883801E; Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:26:09 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <874owexea0.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=22's?= message of "Fri\, 24 Apr 2009 17\:27\:51 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:8469 Archived-At: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court=E8s) writes: > I would be inclined to not change the reader's default behavior, i.e., > to remain at least as permissive as in 1.8, so as to not cause > gratuitous incompatibility (we could even add unit tests to make sure we > don't remove them inadvertently.) > > However, it may be a good idea to have a reader option asking for > strict(er) conformance. I agree. I'd prefer to leave the permissiveness intact until we have a specific reason to change particular cases. Regards, Neil