[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Quasiquote should support unquotation within bytes objects.

John Cowan cowan at ccil.org
Thu Nov 16 00:26:48 EST 2006


Abdulaziz Ghuloum scripsit:

> The problem with the above is that (unquote a), (unquote b) and 
> (unquote-splicing cs) are not unsigned-8 values; you just cannot put 
> them in a vu8.  Supporting your proposal severely complicates the 
> reader and the expander since you have to perform macro expansion while 
> reading; this may not even be possible.

This is where SRFI-10 comes in handy.

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