I think you read the doc correctly, but there are programs that use +i and -i, so it's unclear if fixing the reader is desirable. Perhaps the documentation should be adjusted instead.
Here’s an example of how people use +i and -i: https://github.com/mbutterick/aoc-racket/blob/master/2019/03.rkt#L20 On Thu, Sep 10, 2020 at 3:40 PM Sage Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > It looks like -i cannot be used as an identifier because it evaluates to > the complex number 0-1i. So in the v7.8 REPL, (define -i "foo") fails. I > noticed this when trying to map CLI flag strings to identifiers. -i was the > only one in the set to fall over. > > In the Reading Numbers section of the reference, it looks like a digit > sequence is required before "i" for both the inexact complex and exact > complex productions. That makes sense to me because it doesn't seem right > to assume that an empty string corresponds to -1 like it seems to do here. > Maybe I'm misreading the grammar? > > Before I open a GitHub issue, I just need to know if any part of this is > unintentional. > > *~slg* > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Racket Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/s9pqyR4hlcTjjfYYHeNqnVsDKbU138qdy-L0rIquew86_TtTNX4SlRRw2r4Yv2-0szTzJiCmyu4QDmwwfPD863HHRO6oZpT9x1V8GfCmM3E%3D%40sagegerard.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/s9pqyR4hlcTjjfYYHeNqnVsDKbU138qdy-L0rIquew86_TtTNX4SlRRw2r4Yv2-0szTzJiCmyu4QDmwwfPD863HHRO6oZpT9x1V8GfCmM3E%3D%40sagegerard.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-users/CADcueguL5rk5jaTsBqeuucCOuHC7NYanw-iA0CoCuBbjSC4TBA%40mail.gmail.com.
