Re: [Chicken-hackers] [Scheme-reports] R7RS-small draft ratified by Steering Committee

[Sanel Zukan]

Hi,

Is this means that we are no longer allowed to write and support
someting like:

(define (1+x x) (+ 1 x))

?

Best,
Sanel

On 07/11/14,John Cowan wrote:

> ceving scripsit:
> 
> > The new standard seems to ban Guile's 1+ operator. It must be
> > quoted in R7RS |1+|.
> 
> True.  Then again, it wasn't valid R5RS either, or R4RS or even R3RS;
> R2RS was the only Scheme standard to explicitly allow it, almost
> thirty years ago.
> 
> The theory of R7RS identifiers is that they can't have a prefix which
> is a valid number.  In practice, many Schemes simply attempt to parse
> an alphanumeric sequence as a number, and if that fails, accept it as
> an identifier.
>