David A. Wheeler scripsit: > 3. It has trouble with "." as the last *content* of a list. Which > means that '. works, but (quote .) doesn't. That's weird, I think > '. and (quote .) should mean exactly the same thing. Anybody who uses > "." as a variable name should be taken out and shot, but we should *try* > to be general, and we need '. at least to self-implement. Actually, > we inherit this limitation from the SRFI-105 implementation; I think > we should fix this, and post a fix in the SRFI-105 mailing list. > Such a change would accept: (.) and (quote .) for example. But maybe > I'm wrong; certainly (.) is not a common construct.
I say, don't spend a single moment getting that to work. If anyone wants such an identifier, |.| will do perfectly well for them, and nothing else can be even vaguely portable. I expect systems that treat . as an identifier do so because it falls out of some more general behavior, not because their implementers think it's a significant special case. -- John Cowan co...@ccil.org http://ccil.org/~cowan Objective consideration of contemporary phenomena compel the conclusion that optimum or inadequate performance in the trend of competitive activities exhibits no tendency to be commensurate with innate capacity, but that a considerable element of the unpredictable must invariably be taken into account. --Ecclesiastes 9:11, Orwell/Brown version ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013 and get the hardware for free! Learn more. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sophos-d2d-feb _______________________________________________ Readable-discuss mailing list Readable-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/readable-discuss
