Re: R6RS Strings

[Neil Jerram <neil@ossau.uklinux.net>]

Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com> writes:

> First off, there are a couple of missing escapes: the named characters
> #\alarm, #\linefeed, #\vtab, and #\delete, and the string escape "\b"
> for backspace.

So these could be supported without any compatibility concerns?

> Second, what do you think about making a reader option to change the
> input and output format of string and character escapes to the R6RS escapes?
>
> Characters would be #\xNNN, where NNN is a hexidecimal number of one
> to 9 (!) digits, even though 6 digits is always sufficient.
>
> String escapes would become "\xNNN;" where, again, NNN is a hex number of
> variable length, and where there is a terminal semicolon ';'.

All sounds good to me!  (I don't see any downside, am I missing one?)

    Neil