Re: Release 6.17

["Steven E. Harris" <seh@panix.com>]

Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:

> Code references use special labels embedded directly into the source
> code.  Such labels look like "((name))" and must be unique within a
> document.

How does the parser know that, say, "((def))" is not a valid expression
in the surrounding Lisp forms? Is it important that it be separated by
space, or be the last token on the line?

Trying to concoct a motivating example, consider a structure represented
as nested lists:

,----
| '(a
|   ((b c) d)
|   (((e) f))    ((def))
|   g)
`----

Without knowing what the enclosing `quote' form means, how do know that
"((def))" is not part of it?

-- 
Steven E. Harris