[r6rs-discuss] @ should be a valid identifier

[John Cowan]

Neil Jerram scripsit:

> And yet... R5RS systems, using SXML, have somehow managed to live with
> this ambiguity.  Did R6RS need to choose what appears to be a
> relatively extreme method of resolving it?

R5RS has exactly the same constraint, and to the extent that actual Scheme
systems allow @ initially in an identifier, they don't conform to R5RS.

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