Re: [Scheme-reports] Formal Response #440: Write procedure is not backwards compatible Alex Shinn (11 Oct 2012 23:08 UTC)

Re: [Scheme-reports] Formal Response #440: Write procedure is not backwards compatible Alex Shinn 11 Oct 2012 23:08 UTC

On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 7:03 AM, John Cowan <cowan@mercury.ccil.org> wrote:
> This is a Formal Response to Formal Comment #440:
>
> Write procedure is not backwards compatible
>
> The WG voted to provide three procedures, write, write-simple, and
> write-shared.  The write procedure generates datum labels only if its
> argument contains circular structure.  This is upward compatible
> with R5RS write, which only works correctly on non-circular structure.
>
> The write-shared procedure never generates datum labels, and
> therefore fails if the argument contains circular structure.

That should read "write-simple."

--
Alex

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