[r6rs-discuss] Lexical Syntax

[Michael Sperber]

Alan Watson <alan at alan-watson.org> writes:

> A <string element> can be:
>
>    \<intraline whitespace><line ending><intraline whitespace>
>
> in which <intraline whitespace> is:
>
>    <character tabulation> | <any character whose category is Zs>
>
> I am confused by this. Do the editors really intend to require that 
> there be exactly one intraline white space character between the \ and 
> the line ending and exactly one after the line ending? Should it not be 
> possible to have zero or more than one?

No, this is a bug that has been noted earlier.

http://lists.r6rs.org/pipermail/r6rs-discuss/2007-October/003348.html

As soon as I can come up for air, I'll start that errata page.

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Cheers =8-} Mike
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