[r6rs-discuss] Version reference ambiguity
AndrevanTonder
andre at het.brown.edu
Tue Jun 12 10:19:17 EDT 2007
This is probably just a question of formulation, but on p.24 it is stated that
an empty <version reference> is equivalent to (). This may be taken to mean
that
(not)
is allowed and is equivalent to (not ()), which would give #t. It may also be
taken to mean that
(or)
is equivalent to (or ()), which would give #t instead of the expected #f.
I would suggest that the wording "empty" be dropped and instead that the syntax
for library reference be stated as
<library reference> ::= (<identifier1> <identifier2> ...)
| (<identifier1> <identifier2> ... <version reference>)
One can then unambiguously state that the first variant is equivalent to
(<identifier1> <identifier2> ... ())
Andre
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