Denis Washington scripsit: > "These directives may appear anywhere comments may appear (see > below) and are treated as comments, except that they affect the > reading of subsequent data. The #!fold-case directive causes the read > procedure to case-fold (as if by string-foldcase, see section 6.3.5) > each identifier and character name subsequently read from the same > port. The #!no-fold-case directive causes the read proceudre to return > to the default, non-folding behavior."
Accepted. > Having said that, I know that adopting this would most probably > require a vote (or has already been voted on? I don't know) which > might not go through. But at the very least, the report should > mention that this is a common use of square brackets in several > implementations. Everything else somewhat feels as if the report > hasn't catched up with reality. You have a point, but the standardization of [] to mean () was shot down 11-4 on the first ballot. The characters will probably remain permanently reserved as far as future standards are concerned. See http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/wiki/WG1Ballot1Results and search locally for "#13" to see the ballot comments. -- Income tax, if I may be pardoned for saying so, John Cowan is a tax on income. --Lord Macnaghten (1901) [email protected] _______________________________________________ Scheme-reports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.scheme-reports.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/scheme-reports
