David A. Wheeler scripsit:

> Do we really want that?   I suspect very few tools are prepared to
> deal with FF/VT as a line terminator, certainly vim doesn't see it
> that way.  And I fear that would create unnecessary surprises and allow
> confusing code.  The current ruleset bounds FF and VT rather tightly,
> so that they can only be used on "lines by themselves" to divide code;
> that's the only use I've see of them.

Yes, I think on reflection you are right.  Although R5RS allows in principle
any character to be a line terminator, in practice we have to allow only
LF and CRLF.

-- 
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led. And through the air. I am he that walks unseen.  I am the clue-finder,
the web-cutter, the stinging fly. I was chosen for the lucky number.  --Bilbo

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