Re: [Scheme-reports] 6.1 equivalence predicates
Ray Dillinger 22 May 2011 00:23 UTC
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 21:44 +0200, Alex Queiroz wrote:
> Hallo,
>
> On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 8:19 PM, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
> > Andy Wingo scripsit:
> >
> >> There is a note about uninterned symbols here, and later in 6.3.3.
> >> Assuming that the report specifies the behavior of report-defined
> >> features, and to the extent that it does not mention them, explicitly
> >> does not specify the behavior of any implementation extension, I suggest
> >> that this reference be elided. Implementation extensions can do
> >> whatever implementations want them to do.
> >
> > Ehhh. It's a note. No change.
> >
>
> A pointless note, it seems. Andy is right, the report does not
> have notes on every other possible implementation extension on Earth.
Does the current report say, explicitly, what it means for a symbol
to be uninterned? 'Cause if it's going to talk about them at all,
even as an extension provided by some implementations, I think it
ought to provide a working definition of that term.
Bear
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