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

[Taylor R Campbell]

   Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:14:59 -0700
   From: Joe Marshall <address@hidden>

   Yeah, I agree, but there aren't many other options if you want the
   source code to be somewhat portable.

Portable?  What does that mean in this context, and what does that
accomplish?  If you mean read-write invariance in Scheme systems, then
you don't need the attribute line to accomplish it: any Scheme system
conformant to the R4RS or R5RS or R6RS will happily read :FOO and FOO:
as symbols and write them identically.  If you mean that you want what
is written as :FOO in the file to be read as a self-evaluating object,
you won't get that practically anywhere even with the attribute line.