[r6rs-discuss] @ should be a valid identifier

[Shiro Kawai]

The 'conformity' of R5RS is pretty vague, I think.
My understanding is that any upper-compatible lexical extentions
(which R6RS explicitly prohibits) don't break conformance.  Right?

--shiro


From: John Cowan <cowan at ccil.org>
Subject: Re: [r6rs-discuss] @ should be a valid identifier
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 01:01:56 -0400

> 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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