[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Non-ASCII characters should not be treated all alike

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Fri Dec 1 15:35:08 EST 2006


Thomas Lord scripsit:
> John Cowan wrote:
> >The other spaces under Zs are legacy fixed-width spaces.
> >
> >None of them should be allowed in Scheme programs outside string and
> >character constants.
> >
> >  
> 
> That seems like an incoherent policy.

What I meant was that none can be used *unescaped* in Scheme programs.
You can include them in identifiers using \-escapes, of course.
Does that satisfy your concern?

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