Re: [Scheme-reports] Fwd: Symbol escapes - clarification
John Cowan 10 Jan 2012 02:10 UTC
Shiro Kawai scripsit:
> If '|' delimits the symbol, can the following prose in 7.1.1 be improved?
> That's also the source of confusion.
>
> Identifiers, dot, numbers, characters, and booleans are terminated
> by a <delimiter> or by the end of the input.
>
> I can't come up with a good wording, but it needs to say something about
> vertical-bar-escaped identifiers delimits itself (is it a correct English?)
>
> It may also be possible to add '|' to <delimiter>, which makes it clear
> that (123|a|.|b|) reads (123 a . b), for example.
Fixed on trunk.
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