Re: [MIT-Scheme-devel] Parsing the file attributes line.

[Joe Marshall]

On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Taylor R Campbell <address@hidden> wrote:

>
> What are you planning on doing with the objects represented in the
> file after you have read it into a Scheme system that doesn't know
> about the attribute line?  Either you intend to depend on the self-
> evaluating nature of a subset of symbols, in which case the Scheme
> system will gag anyway; or you don't, in which case there's no need to
> write the attribute line at all.

For *that* Scheme, yes.  But it'd be nice to be able to take a few files
written with prefix-colon keywords *and* a file or two written in suffix-colon
keywords, and maybe GJS's scmutils (case sensitive) and have them
load and work together without playing games with mode switches.




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~jrm