Formal Comment Submitter's Name: Arthur Smyles Submitter's Email Address: atsmyles at verizon.net Draft Version of Report: 6th Section of draft R7RS: 7.1.1. Lexical structure Summary: Change syntax of symbols from |<symbol element>*| to #"<string element>*" Full Description: The vertical line character is being proposed as a syntax for literal symbols. This symbol however is used by SCSH to represent shell-style pipes. the backslash is also being used for the same purpose (which is currently used by Gambit for infix notation).Also the <symbol element> and <string element> production are practically identical only differing because of the quote symbol used. This proposal will allow freeing the | and \ characters for future use and eliminate <symbol element> production from the syntax.
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