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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Add support for R7RS named characters and
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John Cowan |
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Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Add support for R7RS named characters and string escapes (except hex escapes) |
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Mon, 27 May 2013 21:23:49 -0400 |
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Alex Shinn scripsit:
> > It's unspecified what an implementation should do with that, like
> > any other escaped character (like, for example, "\p").
>
> This is intentionally unspecified - you can do what you like here.
> A pedantic impl would signal an error.
Indeed. If things like \p were specified (to mean p, for example),
we wouldn't be able to add a meaning to them in R8RS.
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